The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Redfield, 1853 |
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... constitution , is at once adventurous and provident , circumspect and daring ; whom his Creator has made of large discourse , looking before and after . " The Divinity that presides over states " loves courage , but com- mands counsel ...
... constitution , is at once adventurous and provident , circumspect and daring ; whom his Creator has made of large discourse , looking before and after . " The Divinity that presides over states " loves courage , but com- mands counsel ...
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... constitution of a state , or the administration of the Union , is changed by the popular decree , is often the most quiet and tranquil secular day in the whole calendar . The col- lected will of the majority is not executed without ...
... constitution of a state , or the administration of the Union , is changed by the popular decree , is often the most quiet and tranquil secular day in the whole calendar . The col- lected will of the majority is not executed without ...
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... constitution . In these few sentences were condensed the elements of the American constitution . Raised to the dangerous eminence of vice - president of the national assembly , Lafayette , on two successive days , procured the adoption ...
... constitution . In these few sentences were condensed the elements of the American constitution . Raised to the dangerous eminence of vice - president of the national assembly , Lafayette , on two successive days , procured the adoption ...
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... constitution of France having been so amended as to guar- anty the great principles of civil liberty while it should last , La- fayette spent the next two years in re - establishing and maintain- ing order in the newly - established ...
... constitution of France having been so amended as to guar- anty the great principles of civil liberty while it should last , La- fayette spent the next two years in re - establishing and maintain- ing order in the newly - established ...
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... constitution for France , he closed with these frank and manly words : " I have no other than patriotic and personal motives in wishing for you , as the climax of your glory , a perma- nent magistrative post . But it is in harmony with ...
... constitution for France , he closed with these frank and manly words : " I have no other than patriotic and personal motives in wishing for you , as the climax of your glory , a perma- nent magistrative post . But it is in harmony with ...
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Page 88 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 141 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man.
Page 167 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 626 - The boundary line established by this article shall be religiously respected by each of the two republics, and no change shall ever be made therein, except by the express and free consent of both nations, lawfully given by the general government of each, in conformity with its own constitution.
Page 87 - Ten years of peace, at home and abroad, have assuaged the animosities of political contention and blended into harmony the most discordant elements of public opinion. There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents...
Page 626 - If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the Governments of the two republics, whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning the political or commercial relations of the two nations...
Page 94 - While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves, are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority?
Page 58 - But alas! for his country — her pride is gone by, And that spirit is broken, which never would bend; O'er the ruin her children in secret must sigh, For 'tis treason to love her, and death to defend.
Page 409 - Our population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north, and to encounter oriental civilization on the shores of the Pacific.