Library of Universal Literature: In Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, Volume 15P. F. Collier, 1900 |
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... Foreign Relations -- Washing- ton's anxious Position - Its Difficulties - Without Cabinet or Constitutional Advisers - John Jay - Hamilton - His efficient Support of the Constitution and Theoretic Doubts - James Madison - Knox - His ...
... Foreign Relations -- Washing- ton's anxious Position - Its Difficulties - Without Cabinet or Constitutional Advisers - John Jay - Hamilton - His efficient Support of the Constitution and Theoretic Doubts - James Madison - Knox - His ...
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... themselves ; the resource of foreign loans was nearly exhausted . The articles of confederation re- quired the concurrence of nine States to any act appropriat ( 19 ) ing public money . There had never been nine States.
... themselves ; the resource of foreign loans was nearly exhausted . The articles of confederation re- quired the concurrence of nine States to any act appropriat ( 19 ) ing public money . There had never been nine States.
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... Foreign Affairs , wherein the signs of the times were feelingly discussed . " Our affairs , " writes Jay , " seem to lead to some crisis , something that I cannot foresee or conjecture . I am uneasy and apprehensive , more so than ...
... Foreign Affairs , wherein the signs of the times were feelingly discussed . " Our affairs , " writes Jay , " seem to lead to some crisis , something that I cannot foresee or conjecture . I am uneasy and apprehensive , more so than ...
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... foreign diplomatists to meet him , and in the evening the city was brilliantly illuminated . Would the reader know the effect upon Washington's mind at this triumphant entry into New York ? It was to depress rather than to excite him ...
... foreign diplomatists to meet him , and in the evening the city was brilliantly illuminated . Would the reader know the effect upon Washington's mind at this triumphant entry into New York ? It was to depress rather than to excite him ...
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... Foreign Relations - Washing- ton's anxious Position - Its Difficulties - Without Cabinet or Constitutional Advisers - John Jay - Hamilton - His efficient Support of the Constitution and Theoretic Doubts - James Madison - Knox - His ...
... Foreign Relations - Washing- ton's anxious Position - Its Difficulties - Without Cabinet or Constitutional Advisers - John Jay - Hamilton - His efficient Support of the Constitution and Theoretic Doubts - James Madison - Knox - His ...
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affairs American appeared appointed army arrives attack Augustine Washington Boston British Bushrod Washington cabinet camp Captain character Charles Cotesworth Pinckney citizens Colonel command conduct Congress considered constitution Custis debt declared Department Dogue Creek duty Edmund Randolph effect enemy executive expedition expressed favor feelings foreign France French French revolution Genet George give Gouverneur Morris Governor Hamilton happiness honor House Indians ington Jacobin club Jefferson justice Knox Lafayette legislature letter liberty Marquis de Lafayette measures ment military militia mind minister monarchy Morris Mount Vernon nation never object observed occasion officers opinion papers party patriotism peace person Philadelphia political popular portrait present President President's proclamation re-enforces received regard reply republican retirement retreat Revolution Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent spirit Ticonderoga tion treaty troops Union United vessels Virginia Wash Washington wish writes York