The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Том 1D. Appleton, 1850 - 375 страница |
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... hope will be productive of some benefit to them . I find he serves as a very good spur to them when they are growing a little negligent . Two of them appear to be blessed with excellent capacities , but I confess I am afraid that the ...
... hope will be productive of some benefit to them . I find he serves as a very good spur to them when they are growing a little negligent . Two of them appear to be blessed with excellent capacities , but I confess I am afraid that the ...
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... hope of conquest , or with the expectation of achieving any important mili- tary enterprise , but solely for the purpose of plunder and devasta- tion . What the proud soldier scorned to do was fit work for the betrayer of his country ...
... hope of conquest , or with the expectation of achieving any important mili- tary enterprise , but solely for the purpose of plunder and devasta- tion . What the proud soldier scorned to do was fit work for the betrayer of his country ...
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... hope that my fears are groundless , but I believe it as I do my creed , that this government will operate as a faction of seven States to oppress the rest of the Union . But it may be said , that we are represented , and cannot ...
... hope that my fears are groundless , but I believe it as I do my creed , that this government will operate as a faction of seven States to oppress the rest of the Union . But it may be said , that we are represented , and cannot ...
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... hope of preserving the liberties of the people . He entered the Federal Convention , therefore , in 1787 , with a stern resolution never to surrender the sovereignty of the States . Others , on the contrary , could conceive of no other ...
... hope of preserving the liberties of the people . He entered the Federal Convention , therefore , in 1787 , with a stern resolution never to surrender the sovereignty of the States . Others , on the contrary , could conceive of no other ...
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... hope that he may prove worthy of the friendship , - " possessing as you do , " says he , " a considerable knowledge of mankind , your soul would not have knit so firmly to an unworthy object . " Most of those young men were students of ...
... hope that he may prove worthy of the friendship , - " possessing as you do , " says he , " a considerable knowledge of mankind , your soul would not have knit so firmly to an unworthy object . " Most of those young men were students of ...
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Страница 140 - Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
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Страница 196 - The constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Страница 119 - States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States, within such time as shall be expressed in such order...
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Страница 53 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.
Страница 77 - Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers...
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