 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 ページ
...for not giving more. There can be no greater errour than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride cught to discard. " In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend,... | |
 | Indiana - 1849 - 520 ページ
...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 real...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 744 ページ
...handled at length. For one nation to look to another for disinterested favors was treated as a folly, " an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." Whatever might be accepted under that character, the nation must pay for by a portion of its independence,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 ページ
...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 real favors from nation to nation. Tis all illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1850 - 900 ページ
...fraternal affeclioa. "In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and a&'ectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impressions I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 ページ
...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, real...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 ページ
...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, real...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 ページ
...to desire, expect, or calculate upon real favors. 'Tis an illusion that experience must cure, that a just pride ought to discard. 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,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 716 ページ
...handled at length. For one nation to look to another for disinterested favors was treated as a folly, " an illusion -which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." Whatever might be accepted under that character, the nation must pay for by a portion of its independence,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 ページ
...Clemens. WASHINGTON has said : " There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon any real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, and which a just pride ought to discard." There is a deep wisdom in this ; and he who disregard^, or... | |
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. 
