Hamilton was indeed a singular character. -Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as... The Life of Alexander Hamilton - Page 16by John Torrey Morse - 1876Full view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission to... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honourable, in all private transactions, amiable in society, and...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission to... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honourable, in all private transactions, amiable in society, and...private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the Uritish example, as to be under thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government... | |
| 1830 - 548 pages
...corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and...and perverted by the British example, as to be under a thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation." — Vol. iv. p.... | |
| 1830 - 550 pages
...corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and...bewitched and perverted by the British example, as to be undera thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation." — Vol. iv.... | |
| 1830 - 540 pages
...corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and...amiable, in society, and duly valuing virtue in private lift yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as to be under a thorough conviction that... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. " Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission... | |
| William Sullivan - United States - 1834 - 398 pages
...Jefferson adds, " Hamilton was, indeed, a " singular character. Of acute understanding, disinter" ested, honest, and honorable, in all private transactions,...to be under thorough conviction that corruption was es" sential to the government of a nation." Page 474. " Mr Butler fells me, that he dined last winter... | |
| George Tucker - Presidents - 1837 - 636 pages
...Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honourable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and...corruption was essential to the government of a nation. Mr. Adams had originally been a republican. The glare of royalty and nobility, during his mission to... | |
| Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1925 - 438 pages
..."singular character" who was "not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption," who was "so bewitched and perverted by the British example...corruption was essential to the government of a nation." Jefferson and Hamilton — Hamilton and Burr — Burr and Jefferson — each in turn, there was never... | |
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