| 1802 - 344 lapas
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins. PUBLIUS. NUMBER XVI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED, IN RELATION TO THE SAME PRINCIPLES. THE tendency of... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 lapas
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins. PUBLIUS. NUMBER XVI. BT MB. HAMILTON. The same subject continued, in relation to the same Principles.... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 lapas
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins. PUBL1US. No. XVI. BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Tbe same Subject continued, in relation to the same Principles.... | |
| Basil Hall - 1829 - 444 lapas
...Western Ports. ' In short,* to use the language of the Federalist, ' each State, yielding to the voice of immediate interest or convenience, successively...tottering edifice was ready to fall upon our heads, and crush us beneath its ruins.' " Most of the federal constitutions in the world have degenerated or perished... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - 590 lapas
...In short, to use the language of the authors of the Federalist, "each state, yielding to the voice of immediate interest or convenience, successively...beneath its ruins." Most of the federal constitutions in the world have degenerated or perished in the same way, and by the same means. They are to be classed... | |
| James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 lapas
...In short, to use the language of the authors of the Federalist, < each State, yielding to the voice of immediate interest, or convenience, successively...tottering edifice, was ready to fall upon our heads, and crush us beneath its ruins.' " Such was the state of the confederacy, after the danger in which it... | |
| Francis Fellowes - 1835 - 214 lapas
...sacred honor, in support of independence ? But it was all in vain. " Each state yielding to the voice of immediate interest or convenience, successively...upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins." America which had maintained herself with so much glory in the eyes of the world, was now in danger... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 lapas
...nothing, while symptoms of distress were multiplying on every hand. Each State, yielding to the voice of immediate interest or convenience, successively...its support from the Confederation, " till the frail aad tottering edifice was ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins." Such were... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 lapas
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins. PUBLIUS. No. XVI. BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. The same subject continued, in relation to the same Principles.... | |
| Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 lapas
...to use the impressive and melancholy language of the Federalist, 'each state, yielding to the voice of immediate interest or convenience, successively...upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins.' The first effort to relieve the country from the miseries and dangers of the confederation originated... | |
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