 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingrati« tiide for not giving more. There can be no greater error...than to .expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favour* from nation to nation, Tis an illusion which experience must, cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...acceptance, it ihay place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, ami yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater errour than to expect, or calculate, upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors Irom nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....than to expect, or calculate, upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater errour than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. 'Tis all illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 340 pages
...it may place itself in the condition of having; given equivalents for norm? lial favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favour, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....than to expect, or calculate, upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
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... that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another, that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character, that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having... 
