 | Henry Adams - 1919 - 348 páginas
...be done half a century later and with the limping gait of State legislature and private adventure. I would have done it in the administration of the affairs of the nation. I laid the foundation of it all by a resolution offered to the Senate of the United States in 1806, and... | |
 | 1920 - 586 páginas
...century later, and with the limping gait of State (not Federal) legislation and private adventure. I would have done it in the administration of the affairs of our nation. I laid the foundations of it all in 1806, and it was adopted under another's name. (The... | |
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With this system in ten years from this day the surface of the whole Union would have been checkered over with railroads and canals. It may still be done half a century later and with the limping gait of State legislature and private adventure. I would... 