 | Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 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... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 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 just pride ought... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 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... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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 - 1854 - 400 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...can be no greater error than to expect or calculate on real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 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 illu-" sion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 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.... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 340 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.... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 338 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 prHe ought to discard.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 608 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. There can be no greater error than to fexpect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must... | |
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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... 
