 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...be encouraged. From the natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose ; and there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free coimtry, should inspire ( caution in... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...be encouraged. From the natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of.that spirit for every salutary purpose ; and there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purgose. And there being constant danger 223 of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 580 pages
...will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger 223 of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public...lest, instead of warming, it should consume. . It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...be encouraged. From the natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose ; and there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 338 pages
...encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always bo •jnough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that tn"e habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - History - 1969 - 306 pages
...constant danger of an excess of it. He closed this passage by branding the spirit of party in a metaphor: "A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance...flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume." No one can doubt that by the end of his administration Washington's role had become that of a committed... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...encouraged. From the natural tendency of such governments, it is certain there will always be enough of it for every salutary purpose and there being constant...the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to not to mitigate & correct it. Tis a fire which cannot be quenched but dedemanding mands a uniform vigilance... | |
 | Ralph Ketcham - History - 1987 - 294 pages
...be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant...flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." When such vigilance was lacking, Washington warned, "the alternate domination of one faction over another... | |
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... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there... 
