 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1848 - 916 ページ
...not be understood as capable of pationising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in (heir genuine sense ; but in my opinion it is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. "Taking... | |
 | John Frost - 1848 - 424 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1848 - 304 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1848 - 244 ページ
...be understood as capable of patron vi. ing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the beat policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. Hut in... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 520 ページ
...be understood as capable of patron- ; izing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies." In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : "... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | United States, William Hickey - 1851 - 616 ページ
...not be understood as capable of patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs,...is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend them. 229 Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with 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 existing engagements. I hold... 
