Memoir of the Life of John Quincy AdamsPhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 429 páginas This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. |
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... practice as a lawyer : " I have been a member of your profession upwards of half a century . In the early period of my life , having a father abroad , it was my fortune to travel in foreign countries ; still , under the impression which ...
... practice as a lawyer : " I have been a member of your profession upwards of half a century . In the early period of my life , having a father abroad , it was my fortune to travel in foreign countries ; still , under the impression which ...
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... practice , because for the space of one year from that time it would be difficult for me to name any practice which I had to do . For two years , indeed , I can recall nothing in which I was engaged that may be termed practice , though ...
... practice , because for the space of one year from that time it would be difficult for me to name any practice which I had to do . For two years , indeed , I can recall nothing in which I was engaged that may be termed practice , though ...
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... practice to a hideous despotism , concealed under the parti - colored garments of democracy . The truth of the views in these essays was soon made manifest by the destruction of the French constitu- tion , so lauded by Paine and ...
... practice to a hideous despotism , concealed under the parti - colored garments of democracy . The truth of the views in these essays was soon made manifest by the destruction of the French constitu- tion , so lauded by Paine and ...
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... practice is to be derived from the incontrollable law of necessity , or from the impe- rious law of war , certainly there can be no possible excuse for those who incur the guilt without being able to plead the palliation ; for those who ...
... practice is to be derived from the incontrollable law of necessity , or from the impe- rious law of war , certainly there can be no possible excuse for those who incur the guilt without being able to plead the palliation ; for those who ...
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... practice , which he prescribed to himself , and never omitted , of reading daily five chapters in the Bible , familiarized his mind with its pages . In connection with these studies he read habitually the works of Butler , Bossuet ...
... practice , which he prescribed to himself , and never omitted , of reading daily five chapters in the Bible , familiarized his mind with its pages . In connection with these studies he read habitually the works of Butler , Bossuet ...
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Página 392 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 392 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 392 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Página 29 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Página 272 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 2 - The fact, recorded by my father at the time, has connected with that portion of my name, a charm of mingled sensibility and devotion. It was filial tenderness that gave the name. It was the name of one passing from earth to immortality. These have been among the strongest links of my attachment to the name of Quincy, and have been to me, through life, a perpetual admonition to do nothing unworthy of it.
Página 103 - Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union; but if it should, the South would, from necessity, be compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if that would not be returning to the old colonial state. Calhoun said, " Yes, pretty much ; but it would be forced upon them.
Página 299 - and we may possibly discover some way by which we can get along, without the aid of his all-powerful talent, learning and genius. If we cannot organize in any other way — if this Clerk of yours will not consent to our discharging the trusts confided to us by our constituents, then let us imitate the example of the Virginia House of Burgesses, which, when the colonial Governor Dinwiddie ordered it to disperse, refused to obey the imperious and insulting mandate, and, like men...
Página 392 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Página 142 - Adams proceeded to form his cabinet by nominating Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Secretary of State; Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury; James Barbour, of Virginia, Secretary of War; Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, and Wm.