 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pagina’s
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems had passed in my mind. I was pretty much affected by the discour XVI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED To the People of the State of New York: The tendency of the principle... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett - 1962 - 776 pagina’s
...20 convenience has successively withdrawn its support, 'till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its ruins.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. 19. "at" substituted for "to the" in Hopkins. 20. "or" substituted for "and" in McLean and... | |
 | Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - 1901 - 468 pagina’s
...existed, things rapidly went from bad to worse, till, in the expressive language of The Federalist, "the frail and tottering edifice was ready to fall upon our heads and crush us beneath its ruins." The truth is, the country was threatened with anarchy^ and the statesmen... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 pagina’s
...and convenience has successively withdrawn its support, 'till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its ruins.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 The Federalist No. 70' ALEXANDER HAMILTON March 15, 1788 To the People of the State of New... | |
 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - 1992 - 340 pagina’s
...first principles and main pillars of the fabric." The "frail and tottering edifice," it seemed to them, was "ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its ruins." The "renovated edifice" was something very new.' Among the builders of the new edifice, Alexander Hamilton... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2001 - 70 pagina’s
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins.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. ALEXANDER HAMILTON: THE FEDERALIST, No. 16 The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation,... | |
 | Lawrence S. Kaplan - 2002 - 220 pagina’s
...or convenience, has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads, and to crush us beneath its ruins." This denigration of the individual states under the Confederation was a running theme of the essays,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 692 pagina’s
...interest or convenience has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to crush us beneath its ruins.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. 16: THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED (HAMILTON) THE tendency of the principle of legislation... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 pagina’s
...interest or convenience has successively withdrawn its support, till the frail and tottering edifice seems that rule as proper to be followed. They teach us that the pri 22 Alexander Hamilton December 14, 1787 To the People of the State of New York. In addition to the... | |
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Each State, yielding to the persuasive voice of immediate interest 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. 
