 | L. Carroll Judson - United States - 1839 - 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.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1840 - 394 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 - Presidents - 1840 - 256 pages
...it may place 15* 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 - 1840 - 128 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 experif ence must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 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 ajust pride ought... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 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. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having given more. There can be no 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... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1843 - 452 pages
...acceptance, il 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.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not givipg more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. "Pis afl illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
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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... 
