The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789J.F. Trow, Printer, 1850 |
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789 Alexander Hamilton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789 Alexander Hamilton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
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Side 153 - It would give us a chance of more knowledge, more activity, more responsibility, and, of course, more zeal and attention. Boards partake of a part of the inconveniences of larger assemblies ; — their decisions are slower, their energy less, their responsibility more diffused. They will not have the same abilities and knowledge as an administration by single men. Men of the first pretensions will not so readily engage in them, because they will be less conspicuous, of less importance, have less...
Side 150 - States, each with a government completely organized within itself, having all the means to draw its subjects to a close dependence on itself, the danger is directly the reverse. It is, that the common sovereign will not have power sufficient to unite the different members together, and direct the common forces to the interest and happiness of the whole.
Side 176 - He could scarce finish the sentence, bursting into tears in spite of his efforts to suppress them, and with difficulty collected himself enough afterwards to add, "I wish to be permitted to assure him I did not act under this impression, but submitted to a necessity imposed...
Side 155 - I shall now propose the remedies which appear to me applicable to our circumstances, and necessary to extricate our affairs from their present deplorable situation. The first step must be to give congress powers competent to the public exigencies.
Side 209 - Fayctte, and we conversed together about a minute on a matter of business. He can testify how impatient I was to get back, and that I left him in a manner which, but for our intimacy, would have been more than abrupt. Instead of finding the General, as is usual, in his room, I met him at the head of the stairs, where, accosting me in an angry tone, " Colonel Hamilton," said he, "you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs these ten minutes.
Side 220 - My principal concern arises from an apprehension that you will impute my refusal of your request to other motives than those I have expressed, but I beg you to be assured, I am only influenced by the reasons which I have mentioned.
Side 478 - I experienced before in my life. It would be, however, with a fixed and sole determination of lending whatever assistance might be in my power to promote the public weal, in hopes that, at a convenient and early period, my services might be dispensed with, and that I might be permitted once more to retire, to pass an unclouded evening, after the stormy day of life, in the bosom of domestic tranquillity.
Side 298 - A firm, wise, manly system of federal government is what I once wished, what I now hope, what I dare not expect, but what I will not despair of.
Side 463 - My opinion is, that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution within a certain time, is a conditional ratification ; that it does not make New York a member of the new Union; and, consequently, that she could not be received on that plan.
Side 176 - ... others should reproach him, on the supposition of my having conceived myself obliged, by his instructions, to run the risk I did. I would not for the world leave a sting in his mind that should embitter his future days.