 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 418 oldal
...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...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | James Quay Howard - 1902 - 178 oldal
...inability to enforce two Indian treaties caused General Washington to utter a timely word of wisdom: "That experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power." Meanwhile the... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1902 - 468 oldal
...(William Jay: Life of John Jay, vol. ip 259.) A year earlier, August 1, 1786, he had written to Jay, "Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 566 oldal
...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...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 854 oldal
...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...Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt & carry into execution, measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1902 - 498 oldal
...(William Jay : Life of John Jay, vol. ip 259.) A year earlier, August 1, 1786, he had written to Jay, "Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | 1904 - 510 oldal
...before us in a clear light. He says: — "We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good opinion of human nature in forming our Confederation....calculated for their own good without the intervention of coercive power." AVERY HOPWOOD stood on the other side of the table, looking at him over the lamp.... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society - 1904 - 632 oldal
...event will be, is also beyond the reach of my forsight. We have errors to correct; we have had probably too good an opinion of human nature in forming our...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 594 oldal
...acknowledged the event to be equally beyond his foresight. "We have errors," said he, "to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive... | |
 | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1905 - 846 oldal
...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...Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt & carry into execution, measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of... | |
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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... 
