 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 946 pages
...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 - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 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...calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. Tis an illusion which experience must cure^ which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...Clemens. WASHINGTON has said : " There can be no greater error than to expeet or caleulate 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 disregards, or... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...precedents ! 198. INTERVENTION IN THE WARS OP EUROPE, 1852. — Jercmiak Clement. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...precedents \ 198. INTERVENTION IN THE WARS OF EUROFE, 1852. — Jeremiak 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... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 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. — 'T is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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...countrymen, these counsels of an old affectionate friend, 1 dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish — that they will control... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 588 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 I could wish... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 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...is an illusion which experience must cure — which just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old affectionate... | |
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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. 
