Washington and the American Republic, Volumen1Virtue & Yorston, 1879 |
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... friends , I conceive to be your situation ; hurried to the verge of both , another step would ruin you for ever . To be tame and unprovoked , when injuries press hard upon you , is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage ...
... friends , I conceive to be your situation ; hurried to the verge of both , another step would ruin you for ever . To be tame and unprovoked , when injuries press hard upon you , is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage ...
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... friend to the army ? Can he be a friend to this country ? Rather , is he not an insidious foe ? some emissary , perhaps , from New York , plotting the ruin of both , by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and ...
... friend to the army ? Can he be a friend to this country ? Rather , is he not an insidious foe ? some emissary , perhaps , from New York , plotting the ruin of both , by sowing the seeds of discord and separation between the civil and ...
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... friends , their future prospects ; of advising the general line of conduct which in his opinion ought to be pursued ; and he will conclude the address by expressing the obligations he feels himself under for the spirited and able ...
... friends , their future prospects ; of advising the general line of conduct which in his opinion ought to be pursued ; and he will conclude the address by expressing the obligations he feels himself under for the spirited and able ...
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... FRIENDS ON THE SUBJECT- WASHINGTON'S DREAMS OF QUIET LIFE . It was late in November , 1783 , before the British troops were prepared to leave New York , so large was the number of persons , and so great was the quantity of goods to be ...
... FRIENDS ON THE SUBJECT- WASHINGTON'S DREAMS OF QUIET LIFE . It was late in November , 1783 , before the British troops were prepared to leave New York , so large was the number of persons , and so great was the quantity of goods to be ...
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... friends a sad but benignant countenance , and said : — " With a heart full of love and gratitude , I now take leave of you , most devoutly wishing that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy , as your former ones have been ...
... friends a sad but benignant countenance , and said : — " With a heart full of love and gratitude , I now take leave of you , most devoutly wishing that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy , as your former ones have been ...
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Página 432 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Página 432 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak toward a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.
Página 432 - 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.
Página 430 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Página 427 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me...
Página 432 - 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.
Página 432 - ... belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand...
Página 430 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted 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.
Página 96 - I must decline, as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
Página 428 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...