The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, المجلد 2

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الصفحة 6 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government
الصفحة 4 - and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, ' Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men;' I thence considered industry as a mean of obtaining
الصفحة 6 - trials by juries impartially selected. " These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. To the attainment of them," he concludes, " have been devoted the wisdom of our sages, and the blood of our
الصفحة 7 - they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civil instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust: and, should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
الصفحة 10 - to the virtues of such men, man owes His portion in the good that Heaven bestows; And when recording history displays, Feats of renown, though wrought in ancient days; Tells of a few stout hearts, that fought and died Where duty placed them, at their country's side; The man that is not moved
الصفحة 1 - upon their ruins of a general consolidated government, will be the inevitable consequence; That the principle and construction contended for by sundry of the state legislatures, that the general government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of
الصفحة 13 - condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station; I mean to prepare the way for futurity.
الصفحة 11 - the author of the declaration of independence, of the statutes of Virginia for religious freedom, and the father of the university." On Monday, the following day, he inquired of those around him with much solicitude, what was the day of the month; they told him it was the
الصفحة 4 - second to no astronomer living; that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist, he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has, by imitation, approached nearer his Maker than any mere man who has lived from the creation to

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