The Life of George Washington: First President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of AmericaM'Carty & White, 1809 - 239 Seiten |
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... determination to secure . They named this fortress Du Quesne , in which they stationed a strong garrison , well provi- ded with military stores . These hostile mea- sures on the part of France , excited the in- dignation of the English ...
... determination to secure . They named this fortress Du Quesne , in which they stationed a strong garrison , well provi- ded with military stores . These hostile mea- sures on the part of France , excited the in- dignation of the English ...
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... determined and successful co - opera- tion with the British army ; and it is worthy of observation , that their commerce , agricul- ture , and population , continued to increase , though surrounded by the evils of war . By a succession ...
... determined and successful co - opera- tion with the British army ; and it is worthy of observation , that their commerce , agricul- ture , and population , continued to increase , though surrounded by the evils of war . By a succession ...
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... determination . they had formed to resist the designs of Great Britain . Some of them did not scruple to signify , in a public manner , that they would pay no taxes but such as were laid upon them by the legislature of their respective ...
... determination . they had formed to resist the designs of Great Britain . Some of them did not scruple to signify , in a public manner , that they would pay no taxes but such as were laid upon them by the legislature of their respective ...
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... determined to oppose the revenue system of the British Parliament . They con- sidered this attempt of the East India Com- pany as an indirect mode of taxation , and took measures to prevent the landing of the teas . One universal spirit ...
... determined to oppose the revenue system of the British Parliament . They con- sidered this attempt of the East India Com- pany as an indirect mode of taxation , and took measures to prevent the landing of the teas . One universal spirit ...
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... determined to punish that town in an exemplary manner . On the 25th March , 1774 , an act was passed , called the Boston Port Bill , " to discontinue the landing , and discharging , lading and shipping of goods , wares and merchaudizes ...
... determined to punish that town in an exemplary manner . On the 25th March , 1774 , an act was passed , called the Boston Port Bill , " to discontinue the landing , and discharging , lading and shipping of goods , wares and merchaudizes ...
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Seite 206 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Seite 217 - ... infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Seite 205 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions — that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country — that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Seite 197 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Seite 213 - So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
Seite 194 - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Seite 218 - I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good — that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism — this hope will be a full recompense for...
Seite 217 - ... establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, 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...
Seite 199 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the west can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Seite 211 - ... the payment of debts there must be revenue ; that to have revenue there must be taxes ; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the' proper objects, (which is always a choice of difficulties,) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in- the measures for obtaining revenue which the public...