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 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest^ guided...with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? }Tis our... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided...so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided...so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - Europe - 1852 - 466 pages
...will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war as our interests guided by justice shall counsel. " Why forego the...so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1999 - 374 pages
...lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; wher we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided bj justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages...situation ? Why quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground T Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity... | |
 | George Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 142 pages
...of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Farewell Address, Philadelphia, September 19, 1796 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? Farewell Address,... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Wby quit our own, to stand upon foreign ground? Wby, hy interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European amhition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? *Tis our... | |
 | Edward C. Luck - Political Science - 2010 - 404 pages
...engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. . . . Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?' Washington... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided...with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? . . . Though... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided...with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our... | |
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