Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 - 12 páginas |
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... Bradley , whether incidental questions upon alterations in pro- posed amendments to the Constitution must be decided by two - thirds , or only by a majority . The President doubted . Precedents were looked for , and the subject ...
... Bradley , whether incidental questions upon alterations in pro- posed amendments to the Constitution must be decided by two - thirds , or only by a majority . The President doubted . Precedents were looked for , and the subject ...
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... Bradley offered a resolution respecting the Spanish Con- vention . To lie for consideration . A resolution was moved by Mr. S. Smith to adjourn from to - morrow until Monday , 2d January , 1804. On the vote , twelve for , twelve against ...
... Bradley offered a resolution respecting the Spanish Con- vention . To lie for consideration . A resolution was moved by Mr. S. Smith to adjourn from to - morrow until Monday , 2d January , 1804. On the vote , twelve for , twelve against ...
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... Bradley's , on the opinions of The person who undertook the medical treatment of George the Third after his loss of reason . the lawyers , communicated among the documents of the Spanish 1804. ] 285 THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES .
... Bradley's , on the opinions of The person who undertook the medical treatment of George the Third after his loss of reason . the lawyers , communicated among the documents of the Spanish 1804. ] 285 THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES .
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... Bradley did not make his appearance . Yeas and nays on Mr. Nicholas's motion to pronounce judgment on Monday next at twelve o'clock - yeas nineteen , nays nine . Court adjourned to Monday morning , ten o'clock . I should have observed ...
... Bradley did not make his appearance . Yeas and nays on Mr. Nicholas's motion to pronounce judgment on Monday next at twelve o'clock - yeas nineteen , nays nine . Court adjourned to Monday morning , ten o'clock . I should have observed ...
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... Bradley did the same , perhaps for the same cause , and probably to avoid separating from his party . Mr. Stone and Mr. Armstrong likewise absented themselves , owing , I presume , to the same doubts of the regularity of pro- ceedings ...
... Bradley did the same , perhaps for the same cause , and probably to avoid separating from his party . Mr. Stone and Mr. Armstrong likewise absented themselves , owing , I presume , to the same doubts of the regularity of pro- ceedings ...
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Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary ..., Volume 1 John Quincy Adams Visualização integral - 1874 |
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary ..., Volume 1 John Quincy Adams Visualização integral - 1874 |
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary ..., Volume 1 John Quincy Adams Visualização integral - 1874 |
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Adams afternoon afterwards agreed amendment American Anderson answer appeared appointed Articles of War asked attended Bayard bill Bradley called chairman committee Congress conversation Count Haugwitz Court debate dined dinner enquired father favor federalists four o'clock France French French Representatives Giles Government Hague half-past hour House of Representatives immediately impeachment John John Adams John Pickering John Quincy Adams John Randolph Judge Chase King letter Lord Grenville Louisiana ment Minister Mitchell mittee Monday morning motion moved object occasion opinion papers party passed persons Pichegru Pickering postponed present President President's Prince principles proposed question Quincy Randolph received request resolution respecting returned says second reading Secretary Senate adjourned sent session Smith of Maryland speech Stadtholder taken thing third reading tion to-morrow told took Tracy Treaty United Vice-President vote whole wish Wright yeas and nays yesterday
Passagens conhecidas
Página 6 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 520 - A Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts, Exhibiting to His Constituents a Vie.w of the Imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War. Addressed to His Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Said State.
Página 320 - And a removal by impeachment was nothing more than a declaration by Congress to this effect: You hold dangerous opinions, and if you are suffered to carry them into effect you will work the destruction of the nation. We want your offices, for the purpose of giving them to men who will fill them...
Página 320 - Court, excepting the one last appointed, must be impeached and removed . . . and if the Judges of the Supreme Court should dare, as they had done, to declare an Act of Congress unconstitutional, or to send a mandamus to the Secretary of State, as they had done, it was the undoubted right of the House of Representatives to impeach them, and of the Senate to remove them, for giving such opinions, however honest or sincere they may have been in entertaining them.
Página 21 - I am determined that so long as I shall be able to get my own living in an honorable manner, I will depend upon no one. My Father has been so much taken up all his lifetime with the interests of the public, that his own fortune has suffered by it ; so that his children will have to provide for themselves, which I shall never be able to do, if I loiter away my precious time in Europe and shun going home until I am forced to it.
Página 315 - He further observed that both French and Spanish ought to be made primary objects of acquisition in all the educations of our young men. As to Spanish, it was so easy that he had learned it, with the help of a Don Quixote lent him by Mr. Cabot, and a grammar, in the course of a passage to Europe, on which he was but nineteen days at sea.
Página 247 - I feel strong temptation and have great provocation to plunge into political controversy. But I hope to preserve myself from it by the considerations which have led me to the resolution of renouncing. A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
Página 5 - For the space of twelve months my mother with her infant children dwelt, liable every hour of the day and of the night to be butchered in cold blood, or taken and carried into Boston as hostages.
Página 374 - ... the President replied that he had then assumed that principle because Genest by his intemperance forced us to fix on some point, and we were not then prepared to assert the claim of jurisdiction to the extent we are in reason entitled to ; but he had then taken care expressly to reserve the subject for future consideration, with a view to this same doctrine for which he now contends.
Página 7 - June 2nd, 1777. DEAR SIR, I love to receive letters very well ; much better than I love to write them. I make but a poor figure at composition. My head is much too fickle. My thoughts are running after bird's eggs, play and trifles, till I get vexed with myself.
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