The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which would make it wise in a Nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the... The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 232by Charles Sumner - 1883Full view - About this book
| 1811 - 584 pages
...mankind, which may be " a reasonable ground of confidence, and experience justifies "the theory. But the history of human conduct does not " warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would 41 make it wise in a nation, to commit interests of so delicate 1811.] Works ef Alexander Hamilton.... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 pages
...own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that...of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a president of the United States. To have intrusted the power... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 pages
...own aggrandizement, by tbe aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which •would mnke it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 736 pages
...against the temptation incident to the commitment of the delicate and momentous interests of the nation, which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the disposal of a single magistrate, it is a plain consequence, that every addition that may be made to... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - 758 pages
...own aggrandizement, by the aid of a for" eign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The " history of human conduct does not warrant that...human virtue, which would make it wise in a nation to coin" mit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which " concern its intercourse with... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...aggrandizement, by the aid of a " foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. " The history of human conduct does not warrant that...concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to 11 the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as. " would be a president of the United... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1852 - 528 pages
...power, the price of his treach' ery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not war' rant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which would...the world to the • sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a ' president of the United States. Federalist, p. 344.* I shall... | |
| Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1854 - 422 pages
...vendible article at an enormous price. Although such occurrences are not ordinarily to be expected, yet the history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human nature which would make it wise in a nation to commit its most delicate interests and momentous concerns... | |
| 1857 - 504 pages
...of his treachery to his " constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that ex" alted opinion of human virtue, which would make it wise...intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disu posal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a presi" dent of the United States."... | |
| Henry Barton Dawson - 1863 - 770 pages
...own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that...of the world, to the sole disposal of a Magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States. To have intrusted the power... | |
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