 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 706 páginas
...my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1877 - 538 páginas
...Adams, II., p. 129. 1 Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay; " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will uot adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 páginas
...obedience to the ordinances of a general government. without which every thing else fails." And again : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - 1877 - 704 páginas
...my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1878 - 56 páginas
...order to prevent this." Washington wrote to John Jay (SPABKS'S Life of Washington, vol. ix., p. 187): "We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 544 páginas
...crisis, and I acknowledge that the event is equally beyond my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 páginas
...the fitness of the Americans for a republican form of government. " We have probably," he wrote, " had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our Confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 páginas
...republic than did General Washington. In a letter to Mr. Jay in the previous autumn he had said : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | George Washington - 1891 - 544 páginas
...my own. What the event will be, is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1891 - 208 páginas
...time of Washington it was feared that the union would not hold together. Washington himself wrote, "We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
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We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention... 
