The ​Forgotten Leaders of the Revolution 1 csillagozás

Even the wildest Republican had his favourite Federalist and John Adams wrote sunnily to Benjamin Rush in 1811:
„In point of Republicanism, all the differences I ever knew or could discover between you and me, or between Jefferson and me consist of
1. I was a monarchist because I thought a speech more manly, more respectful to Congress and the nation. Jefferson and Rush preferred messages.
2. I held levees once a week. […] Jefferson's whole eight years was a levee. […]
4. Jefferson and Rush were for liberty and straight hair. I thought curled hair was as Republican as straight.”

10. oldal, Preface (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

At times one wonders whether the general abscence of divorce at the time may not in part have arisen from the high standard of conjugal correspondence.

203. oldal, Chapter 12- The First Civil Servants: Oliver Wolcott and Timothy Pickering (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

„Sometimes,” Hamilton adds, „I think of sending Pinckney who is in England but various uncertainties and possible delays deter me.”
„Sometimes I think of sending,” Wolcott must have said, „I, not the President with the advice and consent of the Senate? On what has this our Alexander fed?”

205. oldal, Chapter 12- The First Civil Servants: Oliver Wolcott and Timothy Pickering (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

In the postscript to the proxy letters Burr asked, „Do you use the warm bath?” Bathrooms and bathing were prime interests of this man so fastidious about everything except his public and private morals.

184. oldal, Chapter 10 - The Hermit of Rose Hill: Horatio Gates (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

Lace dealers were more dangerous to trifle with than Gerry may have realized. Was it not the very year that Jane Austen's aunt, Mrs. Leigh Perrot, was sent to prison charged with stealing a piece of lace in a millinery shop in Bath, and Jane and Cassandra tried to join her in a cell?

193. oldal, Chapter 11 - The Dapper Little Gentleman: Elbridge Gerry (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

For fashion's sake I have forsook
What sages call my belly
And fashion has not left a nook
For cheese cakes, tarts or jelly.

221. oldal, Chapter 13 - A Nondescript of Humanity - Aaron Burr (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

Surely it is one of the major incongruities of human experience that a man should have expected to be chief justice of Pennsylvania when in New Jersey he was still under indictment for murder and unable to go to New York unless to a debtors' prison.

230. oldal, Chapter 13 - A Nondescript of Humanity - Aaron Burr (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

All who are fascinated by the chances and coincidences of life must lament there is no full report of what happened, for the „rendez-vous” was „at Mr. Lamb's rooms. He is a writer and lives with a maiden sister, also literaire, in a fourth story.” It would be priceless to know what the gentle, laughing Elia said to and thought of this nondescript of human nature, or Burr of him. Those European travelers and diarists, Gouverneur Morris and Aaron Burr, have much to atone for but their really scarlet sins are that Morris, having oysters on Christmas Eve with James Boswell years before, merely recorded the fact as Burr did the meeting with Charles and Mary Lamb. For that matter on New Year's Day, 1809, we only know that Burr „called on” Sir Walter Scott.

231. oldal, Chapter 13 - A Nondescript of Humanity - Aaron Burr (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

Like many bibliophiles, he felt that since owning books was „good” the means of acquiring them were unimportant […].

231. oldal, Chapter 13 - A Nondescript of Humanity - Aaron Burr (Doubleday & Company, 1955)

[…] Pinckney and Godoy signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo, Spain yielding without condition everything that America wanted. Symbolic of the whole republican triumph over absolute monarchy is the preamble citing eighteen titles and two et ceteras of Godoy's as against „Thomas Pinckney, a citizen of the United States.”

266. oldal, Chapter 14 - Two South Carolina Grandees: The Pinckney Brothers (Doubleday & Company, 1955)