Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1830 |
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Page 302 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.' - 'How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 80 - Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, in the city of New York, read and accepted, Feb.
Page 255 - ... conscientious adherence to duty, to select them for such stations as they are believed to be better qualified to fill than other citizens ; but the purity of our Government would, doubtless, be promoted by their exclusion from all appointments in the gift of the President, in whose election they have been officially concerned.
Page 256 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.
Page 256 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance; and I cannot but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.
Page 256 - ... not to be sacrificed to private interests. It is the people, and they alone, who have a right to complain when a bad officer is substituted for a good one. He who is removed has the same means of obtaining a living that are enjoyed by the millions who never held office. The proposed limitation would destroy the idea of property now so generally connected with official station, and although individual distress may be sometimes produced, it would, by promoting that rotation which constitutes a...
Page 224 - If no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest number, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose Immediately, by ballot the President.
Page 254 - The mode may be so regulated as to preserve to each State its present relative weight in the election, and a failure in the first attempt may be provided for by confining the second to a choice between the two highest candidates.
Page 195 - On the other hand, your way of pronouncing the word deaf is def — ours, as if it were written deef ; and as this is the correct mode, from which you have departed, I shall adhere to the American way.
Page 253 - Repeated ballotings may make it apparent that a single individual holds the cast in his hand. May he not be tempted to name his reward ? But even without corruption, supposing the probity of the Representative to be proof against the powerful motives by which it may be assailed, the will of the people is still constantly liable to be misrepresented. One may err from ignorance of the wishes of his constituents; another from...