The Washingtoniana: Containing a Biographical Sketch of the Late Gen. George Washington, with Various Outlines of His Character, from the Pens of Different Eminent Writers, Both in Europe and America; and an Account of the Various Funeral Honors Devoted to His Memory. To which are Annexed His Will and Schedule of His Property ...Samuel Sower, 1800 - 298 páginas |
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... bleffing . He was remakable for his strict obfervati- on of the fabbath , and exemplary in his attendance on public worship . - & : Or his faith in the truth and excellence of the holy scriptures , he gave evidence , not only by his ...
... bleffing . He was remakable for his strict obfervati- on of the fabbath , and exemplary in his attendance on public worship . - & : Or his faith in the truth and excellence of the holy scriptures , he gave evidence , not only by his ...
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... bleffings of society . At this aufpicious period the United States came into existence as a nation , and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . SUCH is our situation , and fuch ...
... bleffings of society . At this aufpicious period the United States came into existence as a nation , and if their citizens should not be completely free and happy , the fault will be entirely their own . SUCH is our situation , and fuch ...
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... bleffing or a curse ; a blessing or a curse , not to the prefent age alone , for with our tate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved . WITH this conviction of the importance of the pref- ent crifis , filence in me would be ...
... bleffing or a curse ; a blessing or a curse , not to the prefent age alone , for with our tate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved . WITH this conviction of the importance of the pref- ent crifis , filence in me would be ...
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... bleffings which have been obtained ? In such a republic , who will exclude them from the rights of citizens , and the fruits of their labours ? In fuch a country , so happily circumstanced , the purfuits of commerce , and the ...
... bleffings which have been obtained ? In such a republic , who will exclude them from the rights of citizens , and the fruits of their labours ? In fuch a country , so happily circumstanced , the purfuits of commerce , and the ...
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... bleffing , as will acquire to them the glory of recommend- ing it to the applause , the affection , and the adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it . HERE , perhaps , I ought to stop . But a folicitude for your welfare ...
... bleffing , as will acquire to them the glory of recommend- ing it to the applause , the affection , and the adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it . HERE , perhaps , I ought to stop . But a folicitude for your welfare ...
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Página 79 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 89 - 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 94 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance...
Página 92 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.
Página 74 - I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made. " I beg you at the same time to do me the...
Página 84 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Página 83 - This government, the offspring of our own "choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy...
Página 97 - With me a predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and consistency which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.
Página 82 - Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment.
Página 78 - ... at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices...