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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... interest is not the strongest passion in the human breast . There are difficult points , too , still unsettled ... interest . For while the principal , and interest preceding and subsequent to the war , seem justly due from us , that ...
... interest is not the strongest passion in the human breast . There are difficult points , too , still unsettled ... interest . For while the principal , and interest preceding and subsequent to the war , seem justly due from us , that ...
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... interest ; the debtor replies , that he has not gained it , and that it is a case , where a loss having been incurred , every one tries to shift it from himself . The known bias of the human mind from motives of interest should lessen ...
... interest ; the debtor replies , that he has not gained it , and that it is a case , where a loss having been incurred , every one tries to shift it from himself . The known bias of the human mind from motives of interest should lessen ...
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... interest . Under this order , our citizens generally are enjoying a very great degree of liberty and security in the most temperate manner . Every man being at his ease , feels an interest in the preservation of order , and comes forth ...
... interest . Under this order , our citizens generally are enjoying a very great degree of liberty and security in the most temperate manner . Every man being at his ease , feels an interest in the preservation of order , and comes forth ...
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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