 | Alan Cassels - History - 1996 - 324 pages
...visions: 'It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.' The words recalled John Winthrop's biblical metaphor of America as 'a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give mankind the too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence."60 In the course of time, Washington told his readers, whatever temporary advantages that... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - Fiction - 1997 - 316 pages
...enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enhghtened, and at no distant period a great narion to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...be that Providence has not connected the permanent fehcity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - Political Science - 1996 - 456 pages
...it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantage which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great Nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantage which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected... | |
 | Neil Campbell, Alasdair Kean - Popular culture - 1997 - 332 pages
...Farewell Address in 1796, 'of a free enlightened and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.' This was reflected in the consistent expansion of the United States both in terms of territory and... | |
 | George Washington - 1998 - 40 pages
...it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felic[22] ity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment... | |
 | H. W. Brands - History - 1998 - 356 pages
...humanity. "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." The example would produce its benefits only if United States remained distant from the affairs of foreign... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1999 - 374 pages
...it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Cap it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue ?... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages that might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent... | |
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Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant... 
