 We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention...  Washington - Sivu 95tekijä(t) François Guizot - 1840 - 230 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 sivua
...my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power that will pervade the whole Union in as energetic... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 sivua
...my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power that will pervade the whole Union in as energetic... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 sivua
...obedience to the ordinances of a general government. without which every thing else fails." And again : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can long exist as a nation, without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1877 - 538 sivua
...Adams, II., p. 129. 1 Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay; " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...confederation. Experience has taught us that men will uot adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1878 - 56 sivua
...order to prevent this." Washington wrote to John Jay (SPABKS'S Life of Washington, vol. ix., p. 187): "We have probably had too good an opinion of human...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power." " The glare of royalty... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 544 sivua
...crisis, and I acknowledge that the event is equally beyond my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive that we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 sivua
...the fitness of the Americans for a republican form of government. " We have probably," he wrote, " had too good an opinion of human nature in forming...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power which... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society - 1904 - 604 sivua
...event will be, is also beyond the reach of my forsight. We have errors to correct; we have had probably too good an opinion of human nature in forming our...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 sivua
...republic than did General Washington. In a letter to Mr. Jay in the previous autumn he had said : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...into execution measures the best calculated for their owu good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can long exist as a nation... | |
 | John Jay - 1793 - 528 sivua
...have, probably, had too gootf an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. /fexperience_has taught us, that men will not adopt, and carry into...the best calculated for their own good, without the in\ tervention of a coercive power./ 1 do not conceive we can ^j \ exist long~as~aTnation, withtruHiaving... | |
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