 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...tiide for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to .expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience...ought to discard. " In offering to you, my countrymen, thes£ counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting... | |
 | David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 pages
...ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience...discard. " In offering to you, my countrymen, these councils of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...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 ought to discard. 41. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old awl affectionate friend, I dare not... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...condition of having given equivalents 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 Irom nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | United States - 1824 - 518 pages
...ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience...a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, n»y-camitrymen, these counsels of an old and afflfecUonato friend, I dare*iot hope they will make... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1826 - 844 pages
...would be unwise, to ex" tend them." " In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of " an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will "make the strong and bsting impression 1 could wish; "that they will control the usual current cf the passion?, " or prevent... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error...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 1 could wish... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. 'Tis all illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
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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. 
