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... leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile , than to that of a judge biassed to one side ; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right , than cross and pile does . It is in the power , therefore ...
... leave a cause to the decision of cross and pile , than to that of a judge biassed to one side ; and that the opinion of twelve honest jurymen gives still a better hope of right , than cross and pile does . It is in the power , therefore ...
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... leave to return my thanks to the President , and to yourself , Sir , for the expedi- tion with which you were so good as to forward it , after it was obtained . Being advised that October is the best month of the autumn for a passage to ...
... leave to return my thanks to the President , and to yourself , Sir , for the expedi- tion with which you were so good as to forward it , after it was obtained . Being advised that October is the best month of the autumn for a passage to ...
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... leave was given to the bakers to go into the country and buy flour for themselves , as they can . This will soon relieve us , because the wheat harvest is well advanced . Never was there a country where the prac- tice of governing too ...
... leave was given to the bakers to go into the country and buy flour for themselves , as they can . This will soon relieve us , because the wheat harvest is well advanced . Never was there a country where the prac- tice of governing too ...
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... leave it in the hands of Mr. Short to be pursued , if any prospect opens on him . I propose to sail from Havre as soon after the first of October as I can get a vessel ; and shall con- sequently leave this place a week earlier than that ...
... leave it in the hands of Mr. Short to be pursued , if any prospect opens on him . I propose to sail from Havre as soon after the first of October as I can get a vessel ; and shall con- sequently leave this place a week earlier than that ...
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... leave Paris , and that this is my last letter on public subjects , I have indulged myself in giving you a general view of things , as they appear to me at the time of my leaving them . Mr. Short will have the honour of continuing the ...
... leave Paris , and that this is my last letter on public subjects , I have indulged myself in giving you a general view of things , as they appear to me at the time of my leaving them . Mr. Short will have the honour of continuing the ...
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Seite 131 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Seite 298 - But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Seite 298 - We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Seite 298 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading :...
Seite 521 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
Seite 391 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Seite 298 - ... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of bookreading;...
Seite 287 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Seite 332 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Seite 232 - And indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?