 | Jedidiah Morse - Indians of North America - 1824 - 524 pages
...contributed to change the temper and views of the people, and compose them into an independent nation. The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government...many different nations, their customs, manners and hal>its had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had been so rare, and their knowledge of each... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 376 pages
...contributed to change the temper and views of the people and compose them into an independent nation. The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government...imperfect, that to unite them in the same principles in theory and the same system of action, was certainly a very difficult enterprise. The complete accomplishment... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional law - 1927 - 98 pages
...restrained, and any degree of freedom preserved in the Constitution." Adams to H. Niles, Feb. 13, 1818: "The Colonies had grown up under Constitutions of...knowledge of each other so imperfect, that to unite them on the same principles in theory and the same system of action, was certainly a very difficult enterprise.... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 910 pages
...thirteen proud colonies. John Adams looked back on those days when he wrote to a friend, in 1818, that "The colonies had grown up under constitutions of...variety of religions; they were composed of so many nations; their customs, manners and habits had so little resemblance; and their intercourse had been... | |
 | C. C. Goen - History - 1985 - 216 pages
...United States, the achievement of unity out of so much diversity was a modern marvel in nation-making. The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government...imperfect, that to unite them in the same principles in theory and the same system of action was certainly a very difficult enterprise. The complete accomplishment... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - History - 2004 - 754 pages
...afterward John Adams still felt that the union of the colonies in 1776 was something of a miracle. The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government...imperfect, that to unite them in the same principles in theory and the same system of action, was certainly a very difficult enterprise. The complete accomplishment... | |
 | Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf - History - 2005 - 400 pages
...remembered his elation on learning of the coincidence. The colonies had grown up under constitutions so different, there was so great a variety of religions,...imperfect, that to unite them in the same principles in theory and the same system of action, was certainly a very difficult enterprise. The complete accomplishment... | |
 | United States - 1818 - 464 pages
...contributed to change the temper and views of tliv ¡"4>[i!ca.n<l composa them into an independent nation. The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so contributed to produce the revolution. Many of those orations I have heard, and all that £ could obtain... | |
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The colonies had grown up under constitutions of government so different, there was so great a variety of religions, they were composed of so many different nations, their customs, manners and habits had so little resemblance, and their intercourse had... 