| 1857 - 624 páginas
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon...which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to yon, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make... | |
| Furman Sheppard - 1857 - 356 páginas
...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 priie ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 páginas
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude ibr not giving more. There can be no 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 to discard. In offering to you,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1970 - 1098 páginas
...\vhich may fail us in the very moments most interesting to both these great objects . . . There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon...nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure.' " "Jefferson was as positive : " 'The marketing of our productions will be at the mercy of any nation... | |
| Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 188 páginas
...phraseology startlingly similar to that which he had used in introducing the section; he said that "in offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend — counsels suggested by laborious reflection, and matured by a various experience, I dare not hope... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1982 - 362 páginas
...itself in the condition ... of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. "There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon...nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure." Commerce has changed. Technology has changed. But nations have not and will not. The Caribbean Basin... | |
| Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 páginas
...can be no greater folly than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation -'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to disregard.23 Seeking to foster conciliation with England and to stem the tide of sympathy for Jacobin... | |
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