The Life of Alexander Hamilton: By John T. Morse, Jr, Том 1Little, Brown, and Company, 1876 |
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The Life of Alexander Hamilton: By John T. Morse, Jr, Том 1 John Torrey Morse (Jr.) Полный просмотр - 1876 |
The Life of Alexander Hamilton: By John T. Morse, Jr, Том 1 John Torrey Morse (Jr.) Полный просмотр - 1876 |
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able adopted affairs aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton altogether anti-federal anti-federalists appeared arguments army Articles of Confederation bank bill body British cerning character Clinton Clintonians concerning Confederation Congress Constitution Convention creditors danger debate debt declared degree delegates dollars duties eral established existence fact favor federal Federalists feeling force foreign funds furnished gress Hamil Hamilton honor ilton important indebtedness influence interest Jefferson Jersey plan John Adams labor legislature less letter Madison Marquis de Lafayette matter measure ment military mind national government nature nearly never obliged officers opinion opponents party passed patriot payment persons political present principles proposed proved question reason resolution respect result revenue Rhode Island scheme secretary secure seemed Senate sentiments spirit substantial success Superintendent of Finance tion treasury treaty troops Union United urged Vergennes Virginia Virginia plan vote Washington whole wrote York
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Стр. 201 - Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation...
Стр. 38 - I am not conscious of it, sir; but since you have thought it necessary to tell me so, we part.
Стр. 180 - Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and from Maryland, Mr. Ross. Congress having received the report of the Convention lately assembled in Philadelphia, — Resolved, unanimously.
Стр. 222 - I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of the many, that this truth gradually gains ground. This government has for its object public strength and individual security. It is said with us to be unattainable. If it was once formed it would maintain itself.
Стр. 38 - As a man of honor, he could not but reject it ; and I would not for the world have proposed to him a thing which must have placed me in the unamiable light of supposing him capable of meanness, or of not feeling myself the impropriety of the measure.
Стр. 198 - ... a direct tendency to depreciate property of every kind. Is private credit the friend and patron of industry? That most useful kind which relates to borrowing and lending is reduced within the narrowest limits, and this still more from an opinion of insecurity than from the scarcity of money. To shorten an enumeration of particulars which can afford neither pleasure nor instruction, it may in general be demanded, what indication is there of national disorder, poverty, and insignificance that could...
Стр. 197 - ... which we do not experience. Are there engagements, to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men? These are the subjects of constant and unblushing violation. Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens, contracted in a time of imminent peril, for the preservation of our political existence? These remain without any proper or satisfactory provision for their discharge. Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power,...
Стр. 197 - We may indeed with propriety be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely any thing that can wound the pride or degrade the character of an independent nation which we do not experience.