 We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.  Life of George Washington - Página 447por Washington Irving - 1857Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Ramsay - 1807 - 486 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct : we have probably had too good an opinion...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can subsist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole union in as... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1814 - 274 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors le correct ; we have probably had too good an opinion...nature in forming our confederation. Experience has laught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution, measures the Lest calculated for their... | |
 | Frederick Butler - 1821 - 474 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct : we have probably had too good an opinion...intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive that we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole... | |
 | Frederick Butler - 1821 - 472 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct: we have probably had too good an opinion...that men will not adopt, and carry into execution, measuCes the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 552 páginas
...to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond my foresight. We have errors to correct ; we have, probably, had too good an opinion...in forming our confederation. Experience has taught u*, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good,... | |
 | George Washington - 1835 - 568 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 580 páginas
...accord with my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct We have probably had too good an opinion...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1888 - 576 páginas
...my own. What the event will be, is beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. Wt have, probably, had too good an opinion of human nature...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 754 páginas
...before, when he said, ' Experience has taught us that men will not adopt, 'and carry intoettect executive measures, the best calculated for their * own good,...intervention of coercive power. I do not ' conceive that we can exist long, as a nation, without lodging ' somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole... | |
 | 1838 - 1104 páginas
...to British creditors the right of recovering in the United States their honest debts." — p. 314. " We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation" are his emphatic words.— p. 247. The sole remedy appeared to be a federal government, which should... | |
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