Excerpt from John Jay The public life of John Jay was so active and varied that it is almost impossible to compress the essential facts into small compass without losing much of their interest and suggestiveness. More over, he was by disposition so reticent and unim pulsive, so completely self-controlled, that there is scarcely any material for constructing a history of his inner private life. He was singularly free from those faults which, trivial or serious, attract men's love by exciting their sympathy or pity. ...
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Excerpt from John Jay The public life of John Jay was so active and varied that it is almost impossible to compress the essential facts into small compass without losing much of their interest and suggestiveness. More over, he was by disposition so reticent and unim pulsive, so completely self-controlled, that there is scarcely any material for constructing a history of his inner private life. He was singularly free from those faults which, trivial or serious, attract men's love by exciting their sympathy or pity. Conscientious, upright, just, and wise, John Jay, like Washington, survives in the popular imagina tion as an abstract type of propriety; and his fair fame has been a conspicuous mark for all who are ofiended by hearing an Aristides always called the Just, or who, from an a priori notion of history, believe that statesmen have always been as cor rupt, civic virtue as tainted, and politics as demor alizing, as they are in our time. In this belief there is undoubtedly much truth, - but there are exceptions to most rules, or rather what is true of a generation in the average is never true of every individual comprised in it, - and a careful study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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