Washington's Political Legacies: To which is Annexed an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Illness, Death, and the National Tributes of Respect Paid to His Memory, with a Biographical Outline of His Life and Character |
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... human race , crowned with its highest Homage , and graced with its best Exaltation , still instructs , and inspires , by the words of Wisdom , falling from the lips of IMMORTAL- ITY . WITH Sympathy , sacred and devo- ted , with respect ...
... human race , crowned with its highest Homage , and graced with its best Exaltation , still instructs , and inspires , by the words of Wisdom , falling from the lips of IMMORTAL- ITY . WITH Sympathy , sacred and devo- ted , with respect ...
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... it puts a period to a long and doubtful contest - stops the effusion of human blood - opens the prospect to a more splendid scene - and , like another morning star , promises the approach of a brighter day than POLITICAL LEGACIES ..
... it puts a period to a long and doubtful contest - stops the effusion of human blood - opens the prospect to a more splendid scene - and , like another morning star , promises the approach of a brighter day than POLITICAL LEGACIES ..
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... human affairs ; for happy , thrice happy , shall they be pronounced hereafter , who have contributed any thing , who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabric of Freedom and Empire , on the broad basis of ...
... human affairs ; for happy , thrice happy , shall they be pronounced hereafter , who have contributed any thing , who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabric of Freedom and Empire , on the broad basis of ...
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... human greatness and felicity : here they are not only surrounded with every thing that can contri- bute to the completion of private and domes- tic enjoyment , but heaven has crowned all its other blessings , by giving a surer oppor ...
... human greatness and felicity : here they are not only surrounded with every thing that can contri- bute to the completion of private and domes- tic enjoyment , but heaven has crowned all its other blessings , by giving a surer oppor ...
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... humanity in their behalf . Nothing but a punctual payment of their annual allowance can res- cue them from the most complicated mise- ry ; and nothing could be a more melan- choly and distressing sight , than to behold those who have ...
... humanity in their behalf . Nothing but a punctual payment of their annual allowance can res- cue them from the most complicated mise- ry ; and nothing could be a more melan- choly and distressing sight , than to behold those who have ...
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Page 83 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 53 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 95 - ... the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Page 68 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page 80 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 84 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
Page 88 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free> enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 86 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 78 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management...
Page 70 - ... the happiness of the people of these states, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation, which is yet a stranger to it.