The Patriot's Monitor, for New-Hampshire: Designed to Impress and Perpetuate the First Principles of the Revolution on the Minds of Youth; Together with Some Pieces Important and Interesting |
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adminiſtration Afia almoſt army aſſembled beſt bleſſings brethren cafe Carthage cauſe chofen circumſtances citizens commerce confent confidence confiderable congreſs conſtitution council courſe court defire deſign diſtricts duty Egypt elected eſtabliſhed executive exerciſe exiſtence faid fame fecretary fenate fenate ſhall fentiment fhall firſt fituation fociety foldiers fome foon ftate fubject fucceſs fuch fuffer fufficient fupport fupreme governor Greece happiness hiſtory honor houſe of repreſentatives increaſe inhabitants inſtitutions inſtruction intereſt Ishmaelites iſſue itſelf Jofeph juſt justice laſt laws legislature leſs liberty manner meaſures ment moſt muſt myſelf nations neceſſary obſerve occafion ourſelves paffions peace perſon pleaſure preferve prefident preſent profperity progreſs propoſed purpoſe raiſed reaſon reſpect Romans ſcene ſcience ſecurity ſeems ſenſe ſervice ſeven ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſome ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſteps ſtill ſtrength ſuch ſyſtem themſelves thereof theſe thoſe thou tion town privileges truſt United uſe virtue votes whoſe
Popular passages
Page 60 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Page 46 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Page 51 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 52 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 58 - ... with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 88 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided...
Page 63 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 49 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Page 120 - But think on me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews : and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 50 - ... every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.