 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 582 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, 'as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Enrope, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor,... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...private affairs, that honesty is always the best Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? remove every colorable pretence of complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...not lightly hazard the giving ns provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our hi- . terest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a ' i nn I i. in ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our' destiny... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice ? "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1846 - 396 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1846 - 334 pages
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided hy justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war as our interests, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Law - 1846 - 240 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation : when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving vour destiny with that of any... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel....ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world... | |
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Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest,... 
