| Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...or ruin their national character for ever. This is the favourable moment to give such a tone to the federal government as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution ; or this may be the moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing... | |
| John Warner Barber - United States - 1860 - 478 pages
...or ruin their national character for ever; this is the favourable moment to give such a tone to the Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution ; or this may be the i li filled moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation,... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...establish or ruin their national character forever; this Is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our federal government as will enable it to answer the...politics, which may play one State against another . . . For, according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...establish or ruin their national character forever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone to the federal government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution ; or this may be the moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing... | |
| Washington Irving - 1869 - 596 pages
...the federal government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution ; or this may be the moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the LETTER TO THE GOVERNORS. 457 confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics... | |
| Nathaniel Burt - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1875 - 40 pages
...establish or ruin their character forever. This is the favorable moment to give such a tone to the federal government as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution; or this may be the moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing... | |
| Edmund Ollier - 1880 - 658 pages
...existing generation. " This," said Washington, " is the favourable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government as will enable it to answer the...one State against another, to prevent their growing importr ance, and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the... | |
| Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...establish or ruin their national character forever: this is the favorable moment to give such r tone to the federal government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its irstitution: or, this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the union, annihilating... | |
| George Bancroft - Constitutional history - 1882 - 556 pages
...is ours, if we seize the occasion and make it our own. This is the moment to give such a tone to our federal government as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution. According to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, it is to be decided whether... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...is ours if we seize the occasion and make it our own. This is the moment to give such a tone to our federal government as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution. According to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, it is to be decided whether... | |
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