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... - Jefferson's Objections - Forma- tion of Two Political Parties under Hamilton and Jefferson - Their Different Views - Dis- satisfaction of Congress at the Report of 228 Harmer's Expedition - Washington's Address to the Seneca Chiefs -
... - Jefferson's Objections - Forma- tion of Two Political Parties under Hamilton and Jefferson - Their Different Views - Dis- satisfaction of Congress at the Report of 228 Harmer's Expedition - Washington's Address to the Seneca Chiefs -
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... parties for their rustic homes , and the danger and inconvenience were avoided of disbanding large masses , at a time , of unpaid soldiery . Now and then were to be seen three or four in a group , bound probably to the same neighbor ...
... parties for their rustic homes , and the danger and inconvenience were avoided of disbanding large masses , at a time , of unpaid soldiery . Now and then were to be seen three or four in a group , bound probably to the same neighbor ...
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... party should be sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up , he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke , and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the draw ...
... party should be sent to demand him , and that if the ladies refused to give him up , he should be brought by force . Washington humored the joke , and offered to head the party . He led it with great formality to the door of the draw ...
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... moral virtue . " While doing what my conscience informed me was right , as it respected my God , my country and myself , I should despise all the Wasbington to Lee 107 party clamor and unjust censure , 106 Life of Washington.
... moral virtue . " While doing what my conscience informed me was right , as it respected my God , my country and myself , I should despise all the Wasbington to Lee 107 party clamor and unjust censure , 106 Life of Washington.
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Washington Irving. Wasbington to Lee 107 party clamor and unjust censure , which must be expected from some , whose personal enmity might be occasioned by their hostility to the government . I am conscious , that I fear alone to give any ...
Washington Irving. Wasbington to Lee 107 party clamor and unjust censure , which must be expected from some , whose personal enmity might be occasioned by their hostility to the government . I am conscious , that I fear alone to give any ...
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Página 34 - 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.
Página 28 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 35 - Having defended the standard of liberty in this new world ; having taught a lesson useful to those who inflict and...
Página 25 - ... and his prayers to the God of armies. May ample justice be done them here, and may the choicest of Heaven's favors, both here and hereafter, attend those who, under the Divine auspices, have secured innumerable blessings for others. With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service. The curtain of separation will soon be drawn, and the military scene to him will be closed for ever.
Página 112 - As for myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution...
Página 91 - Retired as I am from the world, I frankly acknowledge I cannot feel myself an unconcerned spectator. Yet, having happily assisted in bringing the ship into port, and having been fairly discharged, it is not my business to embark again on a sea of troubles.
Página 13 - ... this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one state against another, to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested purposes.
Página 90 - We must take human nature as we find it: perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
Página 92 - ... Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all, and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Página 14 - There are four things which I humbly conceive are essential to the -well-being, I may even venture to say to the existence, of the United States as an independent power. First. An indissoluble union of the States under one federal head.