Letters: Selections from the Private and Political Correspondence, Telling the Story of American Independence and the Founding of the American GovernmentE.M.Hale, 1930 - 374 Seiten |
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... circumstances as to excite in any high degree this sympathetic emotion of virtue . We are , therefore , wisely framed to be as warmly interested for a fictitious as for a real personage . The field of imagination is thus laid open to ...
... circumstances as to excite in any high degree this sympathetic emotion of virtue . We are , therefore , wisely framed to be as warmly interested for a fictitious as for a real personage . The field of imagination is thus laid open to ...
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... circumstances , it is best for you to do a dis- honorable thing , however slightly so it may appear to you . Whenever you are to do a thing , though it can never be known but to yourself , ask yourself how you would act were all the ...
... circumstances , it is best for you to do a dis- honorable thing , however slightly so it may appear to you . Whenever you are to do a thing , though it can never be known but to yourself , ask yourself how you would act were all the ...
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... circumstances . There is , however , but one circumstance which could engage my acquiescence in another election ; to wit , such a division about a successor , as might bring in a monarchist . But that circumstance is impossible . Our ...
... circumstances . There is , however , but one circumstance which could engage my acquiescence in another election ; to wit , such a division about a successor , as might bring in a monarchist . But that circumstance is impossible . Our ...
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Adams America become believe body British called character circumstances citizens commerce common Congress consider Constitution DEAR SIR,-I declaration dispositions doubt duty earth endeavor enemy England esteem Europe executive exercise favor fear federalists France Franklin freedom give habeas corpus hand happiness honor hope idea Indians interest JAMES MADISON James river JOHN JOHN ADAMS JOHN PAGE June King labor land letter liberty Lord Cornwallis means ment mind MONTICELLO moral nation nature never object observed occasion opinion PARIS party peace perhaps person PHILADELPHIA political POPLAR FOREST possession present President principles probably produce proposed question received religion render republican respect RICHARD HENRY LEE sentiments sincerely SIR,-Your society Spain suppose things THOMAS PAINE thought thousand tion truth United Virginia vote WASHINGTON whole Williamsburg wish write