...considerations which constitute what men of the world denominate honor imposed on me a peculiar necessity not to decline the call. The ability to be in future useful, whether in arresting mischief or effecting good in this crisis of our public affairs which seemed likely to happen,...

...encounter, yet he did not think it proper to refuse a meeting. In a written paper prepared by him he said: "The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting...affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably success or his efforts t< Bankrupt in purse and political prospects, Burr sent a note to Hamilton asking...

...morning on the banks of the Hudson, he explained his reason for meeting his antagonist in these words: "The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in these crises of our public affairs which are likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a...

...describe in the paper, written before he went to the fatal meeting, giving his reasons for doing so: "The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in these crises of our public affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from...

...he not fight. In the paper he drew up, giving his reasons for the course he pursued, he says, — " The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or in effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs which seem likely to happen, would probably...

...from the morality of parsons." 66 In his apologia before his fatal duel, Alexander Hamilton wrote, "The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting...happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity to the prejudice in this particular." 67 In some contexts the costs of balking at a duel could be quite...

...aversion to duelling and premonitions of disaster, his compelling motive; "The ability in to be in the future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting...likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from conformity with public prejudice in this particular." Quoted in HC Lodge, Alexander Hamilton (Boston:...

...explanation for why he went through with the duel that his honorable death might be useful to the country "in resisting mischief or effecting good, in those...crises of our public affairs, which seem likely to happen."40 Similarly, as a member of the Supreme Court, Scalia has shown an aversion to compromise....

..." The ability to be in f utureuseful," — such was Hamilton's own statement of his motives, — " whether in resisting mischief or effecting good in...would probably be inseparable from a conformity with prejudice in this particular." Prentiss was very solicitous that his mother should never know of his...

...what men of the world denominate honor, imposed upon me (as I thought) a peculiar necessity not to decline the call. The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good . . . would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice in this particular.8 Hamilton...