 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
...therefore lefs capable of being held together by fimple governments. Countries that increafe in population fo rapidly as the States of America- did, even during...fuch an impoverifhing and deftructive war as the laft was, are not to be bound long with filken threads : lions, young or old, will not be bound by cobwebs.... | |
 | Alexander Knox - Ireland - 1799 - 272 pages
...growing tc every day more difproportionate, and, there" fore, lefs capable of being held together by tl fimple Governments. Countries that increafe " fo rapidly...America did, even " during fuch an impoverifhing and deftrudtive ** War as the laft, are not to be bound long with " filk threads: lions, young or old,... | |
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... muft come, in time. The United States are large and populous nations, in comparifon of the Grecian commonwealths, or even the Swifs cantons ; and are growing every day more difproportionate, and therefore lefs capable of being held together by fimple... 