The Life of Alexander Hamilton. E-book. Formato PDF John C. Hamilton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

After the lapse of many years, I was requested to undertake this work; but a deep conviction of my incapacity, the want of the necessary prepar atory studies, and a distrust of the natural bias of my feelings, prompted me to decline it.

The Life of Alexander Hamilton. E-book. Formato PDF John C. Hamilton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is as a war of Opinion — as the beginning of that great experiment in modern times, whether men are capa ble of self-government — that it assumes its immeasurable importance. A new World is seen rising into view — a World of Hope; and as the great lights that shone upon its morning path of advancing glory appear, the grateful inquiry is Whose were those superior minds that, amid the dark ness of a chaotic confederacy, combined the elements of Social order, and formed them into a vast majestic Empire?