A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq: Vice-President of the United StatesDenniston & Cheetham, 1802 - 120 páginas |
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... arts of fimulation and diffimulation were adroitly em- ployed . Of the forty votes , however , Mr. Burr had no more than SIX ! Not a member of the Legiflature nor a person who refided out of the city it is believed voted for him . Those ...
... arts of fimulation and diffimulation were adroitly em- ployed . Of the forty votes , however , Mr. Burr had no more than SIX ! Not a member of the Legiflature nor a person who refided out of the city it is believed voted for him . Those ...
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... artist . Throughout there appears a winding , a convenient versa- tility ; a species of refined cunning , which savours more of scholastic disingenuity , than of guileless innocence . We perceive his eye steadily fixed upon the grand ...
... artist . Throughout there appears a winding , a convenient versa- tility ; a species of refined cunning , which savours more of scholastic disingenuity , than of guileless innocence . We perceive his eye steadily fixed upon the grand ...
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... Arts too had been used by the Partizans of Mr. Burr in this city , to cause it to be believed by eminent Republican and Federal characters in the different States , that the Re- publican party here were at his devotion . Their feeble ...
... Arts too had been used by the Partizans of Mr. Burr in this city , to cause it to be believed by eminent Republican and Federal characters in the different States , that the Re- publican party here were at his devotion . Their feeble ...
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... art of dissimulation , was entirely in his confidence . As the tongue is to the mind , so was Mr. Van Ness to Mr. Burr . He ut- tered his sentiments , he was the herald of his expectations . It was all important to the success of Mr ...
... art of dissimulation , was entirely in his confidence . As the tongue is to the mind , so was Mr. Van Ness to Mr. Burr . He ut- tered his sentiments , he was the herald of his expectations . It was all important to the success of Mr ...
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... art in this : it might catch a few easy gulls , and give him a transient popularity not due to his motives . At any rate he was pursuing a policy at variance with that of Mr. Jefferson ; and it suited his views to try opposite ex ...
... art in this : it might catch a few easy gulls , and give him a transient popularity not due to his motives . At any rate he was pursuing a policy at variance with that of Mr. Jefferson ; and it suited his views to try opposite ex ...
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Página 40 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 52 - ... utterly disclaim all competition. Be assured that the Federal party can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As to my friends, they would dishonor my views and insult my feelings, by a suspicion that I would submit to be instrumental in counteracting the wishes and the expectations of the people of the United States. And I now constitute you my proxy to declare these sentiments, if the occasion shall require.
Página 52 - Jefferson; but if such should be the result, every man who knows me ought to know that I would utterly disclaim all competition. Be assured that the Federal party can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As to my friends...
Página 34 - In retracing his steps, we see nothing to applaud, and less to admire. . . . Throughout there appears a winding, a convenient versatility, a species of refined cunning." He moved like a serpent, and "in his conduct there is nothing amiable, disinterested, magnanimous or patriotic. . . . Selfishness impelled him to action.
Página 89 - April last, did propose to the citizens of this state, to elect by ballot delegates to meet in convention, "for the purpose of considering the parts of the Constitution of this state respecting the number of senators and members of assembly in this state, and with power to reduce and limit the number of them as the said convention...
Página 76 - But the Colonel had expressed his disapprobation of such public flatteries, and Mr. Cheetham was in a fury. "It was not to be expected," he wrote, "that Mr. Jefferson . . . would be guilty of so palpable a violation of the laws of decorum. . . . Mr. Burr, however, was pleased to take another course. He would not be so unlike a Republican as to answer addresses. There was some art in this; it might catch a few easy gulls ... at AARON BURR From the original portrait hy Vanderlyn in the possession of...
Página 43 - he had fixed his basilisk eyes on the Presidency; and in the fulness of his sanguine disposition he entertained a hope that, by able management, he might fill that office before Mr. Jefferson, to whom it was exclusively alloted by the people. . . . Mr. Burr seems to have carried on a secret correspondence with the federalists from the period of his nomination. . . . Fortune had been so kind to Mr. Burr that he was lavish of her favours and sported with her bounties.
Página 53 - could entertain no wish for such an exchange,' and that his friends would dishonor his views and insult his feelings ' by a suspicion that I would submit to be instrumental in counteracting the wishes and expectations of the United States.
Página 34 - ... published View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, in which all of the Colonel's political iniquities were elaborately and whimsically reviewed. In fact, in his long public career, he had never performed a single act worthy of Republican approval with the exception of his stand against the Jay treaty. "In retracing his steps, we see nothing to applaud, and less to admire. . . . Throughout there appears a winding, a convenient versatility, a species of refined cunning.
Página 83 - It was, however, enough to show that he was not always to be relied on. Mr, Edward Livingston, too, was suspected ; but on what account was not stated. Apprehensive, said Davis, that the firmness of these men would yield to the stubbornness of the federalists, a proposition was made to them by a confidential friend of Mr. Jefferson, to this effect: