12 Americans SpeakJohn Edwin Pomfret Huntington Library, 1954 - 183 pages |
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Page 37
... experience the infractions and inter- ruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced . Senfible of this momentous truth , you have improved upon your first essay , by the adoption of a Conftitution of Govern- ment better ...
... experience the infractions and inter- ruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced . Senfible of this momentous truth , you have improved upon your first essay , by the adoption of a Conftitution of Govern- ment better ...
Page 38
... experience is the fureft ftandard , by which to teft the real tendency of the exifting conftitution of a country - that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothefis and opinion , exposes to perpetual change , from the endlefs ...
... experience is the fureft ftandard , by which to teft the real tendency of the exifting conftitution of a country - that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothefis and opinion , exposes to perpetual change , from the endlefs ...
Page 45
... experience and circumstances shall dictate ; con- ftantly keeping in view , that ' tis folly in one nation to look for difinterested favours from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may ac- cept ...
... experience and circumstances shall dictate ; con- ftantly keeping in view , that ' tis folly in one nation to look for difinterested favours from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may ac- cept ...
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