The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volum 1D. Appleton, 1851 - 375 sider |
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... interest and curiosity that would naturally be excited by so extraordinary a man . Since Mr. Randolph's death , it has been his good fortune to have been thrown into the circle of his most intimate and confidential friends , some of ...
... interest and curiosity that would naturally be excited by so extraordinary a man . Since Mr. Randolph's death , it has been his good fortune to have been thrown into the circle of his most intimate and confidential friends , some of ...
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... interest in their improvement . In his letters to Colonel Bland , Jr. , who was stationed with a regiment at Charlottes- ville to guard the captured troops of Burgoyne's army , he often men- tions them , and always with great solicitude ...
... interest in their improvement . In his letters to Colonel Bland , Jr. , who was stationed with a regiment at Charlottes- ville to guard the captured troops of Burgoyne's army , he often men- tions them , and always with great solicitude ...
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... interest , young Tazewell showed it to his father , who was so much pleased with it , that shortly afterwards he requested his son to read it to a party of friends who were dining with him . The late Colonel James Innis , the attorney ...
... interest , young Tazewell showed it to his father , who was so much pleased with it , that shortly afterwards he requested his son to read it to a party of friends who were dining with him . The late Colonel James Innis , the attorney ...
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... interest . The carrying States will assuredly unite , and our situation will then be wretched indeed . Every measure will have for its object their particular interest . Let ill - fated Ireland be ever present to our view . I hope that ...
... interest . The carrying States will assuredly unite , and our situation will then be wretched indeed . Every measure will have for its object their particular interest . Let ill - fated Ireland be ever present to our view . I hope that ...
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... interests . So far back as 1783 , Mr. Madi- son , speaking of him , says , " his heterodoxy lay chiefly in being too little impressed with the necessity or the proper means of preserving the confederacy . " Virginia was a great empire ...
... interests . So far back as 1783 , Mr. Madi- son , speaking of him , says , " his heterodoxy lay chiefly in being too little impressed with the necessity or the proper means of preserving the confederacy . " Virginia was a great empire ...
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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.