...compared to them but the dust of the balance. Ages upon ages of continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the...disposal of those lands. The root of the doctrine of nallification is, that if the internal improvement of the country should be left to the legislative...

...compared to them, but the dust of the balance. Ages upon ages of continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the...Union, were stored up in the possession and disposal of these lands. . . . "I had long entertained and cherished the hope that these public lands were among...

...was no longer able to anticipate confidently "ages upon ages of continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the whole people of this Union." What, however, he still could do in the remainder of his life to forward his general plan he did; and...

...compared to them, but the dust of the balance. Ages upon ages of continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the...union, were stored up in the possession and disposal of these lands. . . ; I had long entertained and cherished the hope that these public lands were among...

...thought" to the providential task. John Quincy Adams had hoped for the "continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the whole people of this Union ... by establishing the practical, self-evident truth of the natural equality and brotherhood of all...

...compared to them, but the dust of the balance. Ages upon ages of continual progressive improvement, physical, moral, political, in the condition of the...union, were stored up in the possession and disposal of these lands. — John Quincy Adams Clara Barton: The Medical War It was a warm late-summer day in the...