Life of Alexander Hamilton: A History of the Republic of the United States of America, as Traced in His Writings and in Those of His Contemporaries, Volume 7Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 |
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... present at the inauguration on Saturday , and left Philadelphia on Monday morning , the sixth of March . Administration of Washington and Adams , i . 476 . Adams's Works , viii . 533 , 535 , 538 . declared , " Jefferson would not go ...
... present at the inauguration on Saturday , and left Philadelphia on Monday morning , the sixth of March . Administration of Washington and Adams , i . 476 . Adams's Works , viii . 533 , 535 , 538 . declared , " Jefferson would not go ...
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... present critical juncture , there is , in my apprehension , much danger that sensibility will be an overmatch for policy . We seem now to feel and reason as the Jacobins did when Great Britain insulted and injured us , though certainly ...
... present critical juncture , there is , in my apprehension , much danger that sensibility will be an overmatch for policy . We seem now to feel and reason as the Jacobins did when Great Britain insulted and injured us , though certainly ...
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... present him as a candidate - but he had lost the confidence of the Federalists ; and to avoid the mortification of defeat , * he was not brought forward . He became a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives , and was at ...
... present him as a candidate - but he had lost the confidence of the Federalists ; and to avoid the mortification of defeat , * he was not brought forward . He became a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives , and was at ...
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... present - a tax of a million of dol- lars on buildings ; of half a million on stamps , including a small per centage on policies of insurance ; and a per centage on collateral successions ; a duty on hats ; an- other on saddle horses ...
... present - a tax of a million of dol- lars on buildings ; of half a million on stamps , including a small per centage on policies of insurance ; and a per centage on collateral successions ; a duty on hats ; an- other on saddle horses ...
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... on the coast , the present force , if distributed , would furnish only fourteen men each . In the interior , while the Spaniards were increasing their strength , to withdraw the garrisons would be to encour- 48 [ 1797 . THE REPUBLIC .
... on the coast , the present force , if distributed , would furnish only fourteen men each . In the interior , while the Spaniards were increasing their strength , to withdraw the garrisons would be to encour- 48 [ 1797 . THE REPUBLIC .
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Page 263 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 833 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Page 472 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies: the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad...
Page 473 - ... freedom of religion ; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 157 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 835 - To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their former sins, stedfastly purposing to lead a new life; have a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ, with a thankful remembrance of his death; and be in charity with all men.
Page 472 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 290 - I am for relying, for internal defence, on our militia solely, till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace, which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy, which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens, and sink us under them.
Page 472 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 472 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them...