Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life. yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as... The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Página 321por Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 páginas
...honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example,...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during bis mission to... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 páginas
...in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the Uritish example, as to be under thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission to... | |
| 1830 - 540 páginas
...honorable in all private transactions; amiable, in society, and duly valuing virtue in private lift yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as to be under a thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation."—Vol. iv. p. 450.... | |
| William Sullivan - 1834 - 398 páginas
...in all private transactions, " amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life ; " yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example,...to be under thorough conviction that corruption was es" sential to the government of a nation." Page 474. " Mr Butler fells me, that he dined last winter... | |
| Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 438 páginas
..."singular character" who was "not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption," who was "so bewitched and perverted by the British example...corruption was essential to the government of a nation." Jefferson and Hamilton — Hamilton and Burr — Burr and Jefferson — each in turn, there was never... | |
| William Sullivan - 1847 - 478 páginas
...private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life ; yet so bewitcked and perverted by the British example, as to be under...corruption was essential to the government of a nation." Page 474. " Mr. Butler tells me, that he dined last winter in company with Hamilton and others, Hamilton... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 614 páginas
...honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life. yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example,...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission to... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 páginas
...would be compelled to submit to the dictation of these men, or encounter their deadly opposition—the more deadly as they could fire upon him within his...dreaded Hamilton's ambition and his designs. He not unfrequently mentioned the impression—the chill—that came over him on hearing Hamilton extravagantly... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 726 páginas
...honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example,...thorough conviction that corruption was essential to t!ie government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a Republican. The glare of royalty and nobility,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 páginas
...honourable in all private transactions; amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life. Yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example,...corruption was essential to the government of a nation." In support of this sweeping exception to Mr. Hamilton's political orthodoxy, Mr. Jefferson gives, in... | |
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