 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 ページ
...plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it " IN the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more,...fondness, is, in some degree, a slave. It is a slave to it» animosity, or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 ページ
...In a previous part of the same letter, Washington makes the following admirable and just remark : " The nation which indulges towards another an habitual...fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others, should be excluded; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1840 - 256 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? " In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential,...fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its... | |
 | William Hobart Hadley - 1840 - 128 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! it is rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential...antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others, should be excluded ; and that in the place of them, just and amicable feelings... | |
 | 1841 - 460 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! it is rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others, should be excluded ; and that in the place of them, just and amicable feelings... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 ページ
...recommended by every sentiment which enobles human nature. Alas ! it is rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential...antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachment for others, should be excluded ; and that in the place of them, just and amicable feelings... | |
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The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. 
