| Aaron Bancroft - 1847 - 474 páginas
...Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? " It is our true policy to steer clear...mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let mo not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 602 páginas
...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...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice ? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour, or caprice? LESSON CXXII. Adams and Jefferson. — W. WIRT. JEFFERSON and Adams were great... | |
| Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 páginas
...upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle uur peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? His our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ;... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1848 - 146 páginas
...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...do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than... | |
| Nau Nihal Singh - 2002 - 232 páginas
...George Washington in his Farewell Address, "forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of...toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor Caprice?"10 In strictly objective terms these references to Europe were churlish and unfounded. America... | |
| Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, James S. Trefil - 2002 - 944 páginas
...George WASHINGTON had given similar isolationist advice four years earlier in his FAREWELL ADDRESS: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Erie Canal An artificial waterway built across NEW YORK state in... | |
| James Charlton - 2002 - 204 páginas
...stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. WALTER LIPPMANN It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. GEORGE WASHINGTON Alliances are held together by fear, not by love.... | |
| Fraser Cameron - 2002 - 244 páginas
...extending our commercial relations but to have with them as little political connections as possible. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." This policy of non-entanglement or isolationism from other countries... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...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...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? i < 7 hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the... | |
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