| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 588 pages
...disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them, conventional rules...intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinions will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from time to time, abandoned or varied, as experience... | |
| United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...intercourse with all nations," the warning voice proceeds to enjoin on all succeeding generations, " constantly keeping in view that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another, that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
| William Russell White - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1951 - 1006 pages
...who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations; . . . ". . . constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; . . . There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Legislative hearings - 1961 - 1176 pages
...disposed in order to give trade a stable course to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them; conventional rules...it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 296 pages
...disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules...circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that 'tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favours from another; that it must pay with a portion... | |
| Felix Gilbert - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 188 pages
...disposed in order to give to Trade a stable course, to define the rights of our Merchants, and enable the Government to support them — conventional rules...best that present circumstances and mutual opinion of interest will permit but temporary — and liable to be abandoned [sic] or varied as time experience... | |
| Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the government to support them, conventional rules...it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
| Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 432 pages
...disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them, conventional rules...it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
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