The Lives of the Presidents of the United States: Embracing a Brief History of the Principal Events of Their Respective Administrations. To which is Appended, the Declaration of Independence ...H. Phelps & Company, 1848 - 128 頁 |
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... interest , that no important omission will be found . If we shall thus succeed in depositing merely the germs of general information in the young mind , that , like nursery - tales , shall take deep root and never be forgotten ; or if ...
... interest , that no important omission will be found . If we shall thus succeed in depositing merely the germs of general information in the young mind , that , like nursery - tales , shall take deep root and never be forgotten ; or if ...
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... interest ; and when the second session opened , hostility to the administration was so strongly manifested , that it was evident that meas- ures , even of acknowledged public utility , would , if proposed by the president or his friends ...
... interest ; and when the second session opened , hostility to the administration was so strongly manifested , that it was evident that meas- ures , even of acknowledged public utility , would , if proposed by the president or his friends ...
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... interest on the pub- lic debt was punctually paid , and the principal was reduced more than thirty millions of dollars . When Mr. Adams left the executive chair , the United States were at peace with all the world . But he was not long ...
... interest on the pub- lic debt was punctually paid , and the principal was reduced more than thirty millions of dollars . When Mr. Adams left the executive chair , the United States were at peace with all the world . But he was not long ...
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... interest , no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness , but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suf- frages have ...
... interest , no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness , but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suf- frages have ...
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... interest . Citizens by birth or choice of a common country , that country has a right to concentrate your affections . The name of AMERICA , which belongs to you in your national capacity , must always exalt the just pride of patriotism ...
... interest . Citizens by birth or choice of a common country , that country has a right to concentrate your affections . The name of AMERICA , which belongs to you in your national capacity , must always exalt the just pride of patriotism ...
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第 119 頁 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
第 122 頁 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse...
第 115 頁 - ... the happiness of the people of these states, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete, by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and the adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
第 107 頁 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually Invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
第 122 頁 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
第 117 頁 - States, a decisive proof how unfounded were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi. They have been witnesses to the formation of two treaties— that with Great Britain and that with Spain — which secure to them everything they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations, towards confirming their prosperity.
第 120 頁 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
第 117 頁 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere?
第 115 頁 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead...
第 119 頁 - It is important likewise that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another.