 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 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... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 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... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 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. "Pis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 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... | |
 | John Arthur Roebuck - Great Britain - 1835 - 584 pages
...equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There fan be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. Tis an illusion which experience must CW>| ' a just pride ought to discard." yet... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nom-inal 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... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 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... | |
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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... 
