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[the Framers Of The Constitution] Intended Our Government Should Be A Republic, Which Differs More Widely From A Democracy Than A Democracy From A Despotism.

The House Is Composed Of Very Good Men, Not Shining, But Honest And Reasonably Well-informed, And In Time Will Be Found To Improve, And Not Much Inferior In Eloquence, Science, And Dignity, To The British Commons. They Are Patriotic Enough, And I Believe There Are More Stupid (as Well As More Shining) People In The Latter, In Proportion.

All Such Men Are, Or Ought To Be, Agreed, That Simple Governments Are Despotisms; And Of All Despotisms, A Democracy, Though The Least Durable, Is The Most Violent.

Should Not The Bible Regain The Place It Once Held As A Schoolbook? Its Morals Are Pure, Its Examples Are Captivating And Noble....in No Book Is There So Good English, So Pure And So Elegant, And By Teaching All The Same They Will Speak Alike, And The Bible Will Justly Remain The Standard Of Language As Well As Of Faith.

The Gentleman Puts Me In Mind Of An Old Hen Which Persists In Setting After Her Eggs Are Taken Away.