The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volum 1D. Appleton, 1851 - 707 sider |
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... affairs in his absence . About this time the public mind began to be greatly agitated not only by the wonderful events of the French Revolution , but the various speculations on those extraordinary occurrences that daily teemed from our ...
... affairs in his absence . About this time the public mind began to be greatly agitated not only by the wonderful events of the French Revolution , but the various speculations on those extraordinary occurrences that daily teemed from our ...
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... affairs will furnish the world with one complete and perhaps solitary example , shall I only say , of an unerring guardian of infant education and property ? An example , I glory in boasting it , of an adopted father surpassing in ...
... affairs will furnish the world with one complete and perhaps solitary example , shall I only say , of an unerring guardian of infant education and property ? An example , I glory in boasting it , of an adopted father surpassing in ...
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... affairs , that in time the government might assume that form . The Republicans again were charged by their opponents with being disorganizing levellers , and the enemies of all government . The first great questions on which they ...
... affairs , that in time the government might assume that form . The Republicans again were charged by their opponents with being disorganizing levellers , and the enemies of all government . The first great questions on which they ...
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... affairs were intrusted took unusual pains and practised every deception to keep those people in a temper of hostility towards us . The agents sent amongst us , as with a design to insult the coun- try , were ungracious and obnoxious ...
... affairs were intrusted took unusual pains and practised every deception to keep those people in a temper of hostility towards us . The agents sent amongst us , as with a design to insult the coun- try , were ungracious and obnoxious ...
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... affairs , and the interests of this country , as they relate to France , render it indispensably necessary , that a faithful organ near that Government , able and willing to explain its views and to ascertain those of France , should ...
... affairs , and the interests of this country , as they relate to France , render it indispensably necessary , that a faithful organ near that Government , able and willing to explain its views and to ascertain those of France , should ...
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Side 142 - 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 37 - 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 287 - An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Side 198 - 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 121 - 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 56 - 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 31 - 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 55 - 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.