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Side 140 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Side 35 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Side 285 - An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 54 - The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.
Side 29 - We have no detail of those great considerations which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain.
Side 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.
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| Tittel | The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volum 1 The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Hugh A. Garland |
| Forfatter | Hugh A. Garland |
| Utgave | 13 |
| Utgiver | D. Appleton, 1851 |
| Original fra | Oxford University |
| Digitalisert | 4. des 2006 |
| ISBN | 0598865276, 9780598865274 |
| Lengde | 375 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |