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" We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find by our own unhappy experience that there is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny, and that arbitrary power is most easily established on... "
Southey's Common-place Book: Special collections - Page 504
by Robert Southey - 1850
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...on the ruins of liberty, abused to licentiousness. As to the second article, which respects the performance of public justice, Congress have, in their...
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George Washington, Volume 2

Worthington Chauncey Ford - Portraits - 1900 - 382 pages
...designing nation anxious to secure advantage in America. " We shall be left nearly in a state of nature ; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...extreme of tyranny, and that arbitrary power is most easy established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." As a nation, the States should...
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A History of the American People

Francis Newton Thorpe - United States - 1901 - 668 pages
...letter from Newburg read like a prophecy: "We shall be left nearly in a state of nature, or we may find our own unhappy experience that there is a natural...easily established on the ruins of liberty abused by licentiousness." Amidst the bankruptcy of the times, many states passed laws impairing the obligation...
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The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 2

James Robert Bent Hathaway - Genealogy - 1901 - 664 pages
...unhappy experience that there is a natural and necessary progression from extreme anarchy to extreme tyranny, and that Arbitrary power is most easily established...on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. As to the second Article which respects the performance of public Justice, Congress have in their late...
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Life and Times of Washington, Volume 3

John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 568 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the union. We shall be left nearly in a state of nature; or we may find, by our own unhappy experience, that...on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. "As to the second article, which respects the performance of public justice, Congress have, in their...
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The Washington Year Book: Maxims and Morals of "the Father of His Country"

George Washington - Presidents - 1908 - 184 pages
...formidable adversaries of the unity of our empire than any inherent difficulties in the scheme. NINETEENTH There is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny. TWENTIETH It has been a spectacle, displaying to the highest advantage the principles of republican...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...winh to l>e feared rather than to be loved. — СогпеЧия Кероя. There is a natural nnd g. — Quesses at Truth. 1 like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls the burial g arbitrary power is most easily estnblÍKhed on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — Wanhington....
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COLLECTIONS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY SECOND SERIES

James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union — We shall be left nearly in a state of Nature, or we may find by our own unhappy experience that...on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness. As to the second Article which respects the performance of Public Justice, Congress have, in their...
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COLLECTIONS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY SECOND SERIES

James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union — We shall be left nearly in a state of Nature, or we may find by our own unhappy experience that...on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness. As to the second Article which respects the performance of Public Justice, Congress have, in their...
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The Baxter Manuscripts, Volumes 9-24

James Phinney Baxter - Maine - 1914 - 600 pages
...will have no validity on a dissolution of the Union — We shall be left nearly in a state of Nature, or we may find by our own unhappy experience that...on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness. As to the second Article which respects the performance of Public Justice, Congress have, in their...
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