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Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.


Edmund Pendleton

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EDMUND MORGAN The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea...
EDMUND LEACH The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between ...
EDMUND LEACH Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets...
EDMUND LEACH Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u...
EDMUND HUSSERL Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
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