 They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be...  Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1807-1891: A Biography - Page 82by Alexander Farish Robertson - 1925 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...be in exchange for, an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely...with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.... | |
 | 1817 - 482 pages
...the governments they leave, imbibed in early youth. ' These principles, with their language, they may transmit to their children. In proportion to their...numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They may infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely...with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.... | |
 | William Sullivan - Federal party - 1834 - 490 pages
...in exchange for an unbounded licen" tiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. " It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the " point of temperate liberty. In proportion to their 1:11111" bers, they will share with us the legislation. Suppose " twenty millions... | |
 | William Sullivan - United States - 1834 - 398 pages
...in exchange for an unbounded licen" tiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. " It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the " point of temperate liberty. In proportion to their num" hers, they will share wilh us the legislation. Suppose " twenty millions... | |
 | American literature - 1837 - 624 pages
...be exchanged for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is ' usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely...proportion to their numbers, they will share •with, tis the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, and warp and bias its directions, and render... | |
 | Louisiana Native American Association - Emigration and immigration - 1839 - 32 pages
...than the maxims of monarchies ;—Yet from such \ve are to expect the greatest number of immigrants. In proportion to their numbers they will share with us the legislation, they will infuse into it their spirit,—warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incorherent and distracted... | |
 | Louisiana Native American Association - Emigration and immigration - 1839 - 32 pages
...will be in exchange for an unbridled licentiousness, passing as is usual from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle, were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. In proportion to their numbers they will share with us the legislation, they will infuse into it their... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...licentiousness, passing as usual from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to slop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These...with us the legislation ; they will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous and incoherent distracted... | |
 | William Sullivan - Federal party - 1847 - 478 pages
...be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. In proportion to their numbers, they ' will share with us the legislation. Suppose twenty millions... | |
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