The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States, Volume 2Gray & Bowen, 1832 |
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Página 372 - The attention, which several pressing affairs required, made it impossible for me sooner to answer the letter, which you did me the honor of writing to me on the 14th.
Página 119 - Like the remnants of ancient magnificence, we admire the architecture of the temple, while we detest the false god to whom it was dedicated. Daws and ravens, and the birds of night, now build their nests in its niches. The sovereign, humbled to the level of a beggar's pity, without resources, without authority, without a friend. The Assembly, at once a master and a slave, new in power, wild in theory, raw in practice. It engrosses all functions, though incapable of exercising any, and has taken from...
Página 142 - In my late tour through the southern States, I experienced great satisfaction in seeing the good effects of the general government in that part of the Union. The people at large have felt the security which it gives, and the equal justice which it administers to them. The farmer, the merchant, and the mechanic have seen their several interests attended to, and...
Página 444 - I have so far departed from my determination, as to be seated in order to assure you, that my confidence in and friendship and regard for you remain undiminished. To time, and your own observations, if you should return immediately to this country, I commit the rest ; and it will be nothing new to assure you, that I am always and very sincerely yours.
Página 205 - He has spent his fortune on a revolution, and is now crushed by the wheel which he put in motion. He lasted longer than I expected.
Página 70 - I am not without such apprehensions, for there is one fatal Principle which pervades all Ranks: It is a perfect Indifference to the violation of Engagements. Inconstancy is so mingled in the Blood, Marrow, and very essence of this People, that when a man [of] high Rank and Importance laughs to Day at what he seriously asserted yesterday, it is considered as in the natural order of things.
Página 247 - Towns fall before them without a blow," writes Gouverneur Morris, " and the declaration of rights produces an effect equal at least to the trumpets of Joshua." But Morris was far from drawing a favorable augury from this success. "We must observe the civil, moral, religious, and political institutions,
Página 328 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Página 34 - That we should contemplate a change of neighbors with extreme uneasiness ; and that a due balance on our borders is not less desirable to us, than a balance of power in Europe has always appeared to them. We wish to be neutral, and we will be so, if they will execute the treaty fairly, and attempt no conquests adjoining us.
Página 68 - ... you can neither fix yourself nor your object for regular examination. Hence the people of this metropolis are under the necessity of pronouncing their definitive judgment from the first glance ; and being thus habituated to shoot flying, they have what sportsmen call a quick sight. Ex pede Herculem. They know a wit by his snuff-box, a man of taste by his bow, and a statesman by the cut of his coat.