 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 páginas
...disease of the body politic, as well as the urgent necessity of a prompt and efficacious remedy : — "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... | |
 | John William Draper - 1867 - 568 páginas
...the event will be is also beyond my forestronger govern- ^ . 11 (* sight. 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 páginas
...not giving the State governments sufficient power. In August, 1786, George Washington wrote to Jay, " We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederacy. I do not conceive that we can long exist as a nation, without having centralized somewhere... | |
 | Jonas Mills Bundy - 1870 - 62 páginas
...reply to a gloomy letter of John Jay's, the following words of wisdom :—" 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 E. Grinnell - 1871 - 404 páginas
...to prevent this." Washington wrote to John Jay (SPAKKS'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 Sumner - 1873 - 566 páginas
...additional evidence, from a letter to John Jay, during the summer of 1786: — " 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... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 páginas
...sovereignties, eternally counteracting each other." Again, " We have errors," he said, " to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our Confederation. ... I do not conceive that we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power which will... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 566 páginas
...additional evidence, from a letter to John Jay, during the summer of 1786: — " 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 - 1876 - 534 páginas
...Adatts, II., p. 129. ' 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 not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1876 - 766 páginas
...purposes, or we are thirteen independent sovereignties, eternally counteracting each other." . . . . " 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... 
