"Gouverneur Morris" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lewis Morris (1698-1762)—son of Lewis Morris the governor of New Jersey and father of Lewis Morris the signer of the Declaration of Independence, of Richard Morris the judge, and of Gouverneur Morris—was admiralty judge in New York from 1738 to 1762. His own record of his life, from his family Bible, is in N.Y. Gen. and ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... in the abstract, but his spiritual pride, his pedantry, his formalism, his personal fastidiousness, were all wounded to the very quick by the kind of men whom the Revolution had thrown to the surface. Gouverneur Morris, then the American minister, describes most of the members of the two Committees as the very dregs of humanity, with whom it is a stain to have any dealings; as degraded men only worthy of the profoundest contempt. Danton had said: 'Robespierre is the least of a scoundrel of any of the band.' ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) - Essay 1: Robespierre • John Morley |
