This illustrious person had very usefully employed his studies, in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of public administration are subject, by the vices or infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey.
I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.
Johnson has hit on the most
effectual manner of plaguing us all.
But the misery is, that the most
effectual means, are now applied to the ends, least to be desired.
Advancing, therefore, without much order, they had just crossed the brook with a part of their followers, when they were assailed in front, flank, and rear at once, with an impetuosity to which, in their confused and ill-prepared condition, it was impossible to offer
effectual resistance.
Besides, if he could hope to find no bar to his happiness from the daughter, he thought himself certain of meeting an
effectual bar in the father; who, though he was a country squire in his diversions, was perfectly a man of the world in whatever regarded his fortune; had the most violent affection for his only daughter, and had often signified, in his cups, the pleasure he proposed in seeing her married to one of the richest men in the county.
If, on the other hand, they find us either destitute of an
effectual government (each State doing right or wrong, as to its rulers may seem convenient), or split into three or four independent and probably discordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to France, and a third to Spain, and perhaps played off against each other by the three, what a poor, pitiful figure will America make in their eyes!
In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as
effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.
Next to the
effectual establishment of the Union, the best possible precaution against danger from standing armies is a limitation of the term for which revenue may be appropriated to their support.
Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so
effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs.
The transition from this disposition to that of considering them masters, is neither remote nor difficult; but it is very difficult to prevail upon a people under such impressions, to make a bold or
effectual resistance to usurpations supported by the military power.
Fortunately their plot was overheard by John Day, the Kentuckian, and communicated to the partners, who took quiet and
effectual means to frustrate it.