The Patriot's Monitor, for New-Hampshire: Designed to Impress and Perpetuate the First Principles of the Revolution on the Minds of Youth; Together with Some Pieces Important and Interesting |
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... called together legislative bodies at places unufual , uncomfortable , and diftant from the depofitory of their public records , for the fole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures . He has diffolved repre ...
... called together legislative bodies at places unufual , uncomfortable , and diftant from the depofitory of their public records , for the fole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures . He has diffolved repre ...
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... called to act no inglorious part , and the astonish- ing events of which he has been a witnefs - events which have seldom , if ever before , taken place on the ftage of hu- man action ; nor can they probably ever happen again . 8 . For ...
... called to act no inglorious part , and the astonish- ing events of which he has been a witnefs - events which have seldom , if ever before , taken place on the ftage of hu- man action ; nor can they probably ever happen again . 8 . For ...
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... called forth ; 58. That the distresses and disappointments which have very often occurred , have , in too many inftances , refulted more from a want of energy in the continental government , than a deficiency of means in the particular ...
... called forth ; 58. That the distresses and disappointments which have very often occurred , have , in too many inftances , refulted more from a want of energy in the continental government , than a deficiency of means in the particular ...
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... called into the actual fervice of the United States . He may require the opinion , in writing , of the principal officers in each of the executive departments , on any fubject relating to the duties of their respective of fices and he ...
... called into the actual fervice of the United States . He may require the opinion , in writing , of the principal officers in each of the executive departments , on any fubject relating to the duties of their respective of fices and he ...
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... , and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time . 4. On the other hand , the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me 4.4 THE PATRIOT's MONITOR .
... , and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time . 4. On the other hand , the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me 4.4 THE PATRIOT's MONITOR .
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Page 60 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Page 46 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Page 51 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 52 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 58 - ... 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. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 88 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Page 63 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 49 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Page 120 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews : and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 50 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.