 | 1857 - 668 pages
...scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions npon us will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation...ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? 'Tie our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ;... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 pages
...interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation T Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why,...portion of the foreign world ; so far I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1859 - 264 pages
...nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements,...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1859 - 258 pages
...off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an atti-\ tude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 pages
...hazard the giving us provocation [**] ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by [ff] justice shall counsel. — Why forego the advantages...the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice ? — 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances [ JJ] with any portion... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 558 pages
...it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 526 pages
...material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the nentrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing inBdelity to existing... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 pages
...shall counsel. "Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let mo not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...•Why forgo the advantages of so peculiar a situation 1 Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
 | 1831 - 340 pages
...our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial lies, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the...portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to... | |
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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,... 
