 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 692 pages
...dangers of this kind are not merely speculative. Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions if the malcontents had been headed...Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York? The inordinate pride of State importance has suggested to some minds an objection to the principle... | |
 | Ron Chernow - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 852 pages
...Shays's Rebellion, he inquired, "Who can determine what might have been the issue of [Massachusetts's] late convulsions if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or a Cromwell?" (This and numerous other pejorative references to Caesar belie Jefferson's canard that... | |
 | Jonathan Levy - History - 2007 - 474 pages
...an extremely close call for the young republic: "Who can determine what might have been the issue of [Massachusetts] late convulsions if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or a Cromwell?"348 A similar unstable situation was prompted by Rhode Island's government, which flooded... | |
 | Literature - 1899 - 550 pages
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The tempestuous situation from which Massachusetts has scarcely emerged, evinces that dangers of this kind are not merely speculative. Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar... 
