 The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject...  The Great Trial of the Nineteenth Century - Page 103by Samuel Chipman Parks - 1900 - 137 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Gaylord Wells - Politicians - 1857 - 150 pages
...Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government,...sometimes participates in the national propensity, and.adopts, through passion, what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels t<. X % fmd adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - Municipal government - 1858 - 320 pages
..."Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and .bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government,...adopts, through passion, what reason would reject. At other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - Universities and colleges - 1900 - 674 pages
...Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by illwill and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy." In the last few words is suggested the momentous query, How far can our public men be trusted to resist... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Arms transfers - 1939 - 706 pages
...trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation prompted by ill will and resentment sometimes...and adopts through passion what reason would reject. At other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated... | |
 | Law - 1928 - 1070 pages
...Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, entvenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government,...adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Political Science - 1941 - 904 pages
...frequent collisions, obstinate envenomed and bloody contests. — The Nation, prompted by illwill & resentment sometimes impels to War the Government,...and adopts through passion what reason would reject; — at other times, it makes the animosity of the Nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - History - 1993 - 148 pages
...from its duty and its interest. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests, the nation prompted by ill will and resentment sometimes...and adopts through passion what reason would reject. In other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, some times impels to war the government, contrary to the best...and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated... | |
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