Washington's Political Legacies: To which is Annexed an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Illness, Death, and the National Tributes of Respect Paid to His Memory, with a Biographical Outline of His Life and CharacterJohn Russell and John West, 1800 - 208 páginas |
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... Richard Bowdoin James efq . 2 Bacon Jofiah Bridge Samuel Barrel Jofeph jun . Bowers Samuel Bryant bel Blanchard George Bumftead Jeremiah jun . Coverly Samuel Clark George Callender Jofeph Callender William Carnes John Cooper Samuel ...
... Richard Bowdoin James efq . 2 Bacon Jofiah Bridge Samuel Barrel Jofeph jun . Bowers Samuel Bryant bel Blanchard George Bumftead Jeremiah jun . Coverly Samuel Clark George Callender Jofeph Callender William Carnes John Cooper Samuel ...
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... Richard Smith John Seaver Nathaniel Smith & Turner Sanger Jeffee Simmons Thomas Sigourney Daniel Skinner William S. Smith Benjamin jun . Salisbury S. jun . Sullivan J , L. Stoddard David Thayer Minot Thwing Samuel jun . Thompson Jofiah ...
... Richard Smith John Seaver Nathaniel Smith & Turner Sanger Jeffee Simmons Thomas Sigourney Daniel Skinner William S. Smith Benjamin jun . Salisbury S. jun . Sullivan J , L. Stoddard David Thayer Minot Thwing Samuel jun . Thompson Jofiah ...
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... Richard Allen capt . Edward jun Appleton John Barker John Boden William jun . Brooks Samuel Barnes Thomas jun . Blackler John C. Beckford Ebenr . efq Bacon Jacob Beckford Anne Barnes James jun . Barr Robert Briggs Enos Blanchard ...
... Richard Allen capt . Edward jun Appleton John Barker John Boden William jun . Brooks Samuel Barnes Thomas jun . Blackler John C. Beckford Ebenr . efq Bacon Jacob Beckford Anne Barnes James jun . Barr Robert Briggs Enos Blanchard ...
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... Richard Woodbury Jofiah Wiggins Jofeph Weft capt Benjamin Webb capt Stephen Ward Samuel Ward G. H. Waters capt Jofeph Weft capt Nathaniel Waldo Jonathan efq Watkins Benjamin Webb Michael William DennisSamuel Davis capt Davis Epes 2 ...
... Richard Woodbury Jofiah Wiggins Jofeph Weft capt Benjamin Webb capt Stephen Ward Samuel Ward G. H. Waters capt Jofeph Weft capt Nathaniel Waldo Jonathan efq Watkins Benjamin Webb Michael William DennisSamuel Davis capt Davis Epes 2 ...
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... Richard Webber capt . Benja . West Benjamin Tower Danici Thayer Arodi Tolman Ebenezer Topliff Samuel A. M.. Mafon John Tucker capt John Moore Thomas Tucker W. efq . M oore Jofeph Mafon Thomas Millett Thomas jun Mansfield James Merchant ...
... Richard Webber capt . Benja . West Benjamin Tower Danici Thayer Arodi Tolman Ebenezer Topliff Samuel A. M.. Mafon John Tucker capt John Moore Thomas Tucker W. efq . M oore Jofeph Mafon Thomas Millett Thomas jun Mansfield James Merchant ...
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Página 83 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Página 53 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 95 - ... the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Página 68 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Página 80 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 84 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
Página 88 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free> enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 86 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 78 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management...
Página 70 - ... the happiness of the people of these states, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation, which is yet a stranger to it.