 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages that might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things,-the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...it? It will he worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and henevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would... | |
 | Genealogy - 1920 - 814 pages
...is Our Country." Thus only will the ideal for which this nation was founded be realized: "to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." J COLONEL SILAS HEDGES Pioneer of Western Virginia By Dora Hedges Goodwyn ILAS HEDGES was horn on the... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...conduct of its foreign affairs. America could set a good example to all. The new republic could "give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." He rejected duplicity, urging Americans to accept the maxim that "honesty is always the best policy."... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great Nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruit of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...the utilitarian maxim that "honesty is always the best policy," but he exhorted America to "give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence" (W 972, 975). These balanced principles lie within the just war tradition of classical philosophy,... | |
 | Marie-Jeanne Rossignol - History - 2004 - 304 pages
...passage: "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence."23 Evidently, Washington's Farewell Address laid the foundations of isolationism.24 The... | |
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JohnWilliam McMullen - 2004 - 92 pages
...enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great Nation to give to Mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence— Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The... | |
 | John B. Judis - History - 2010 - 266 pages
...Address, "It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a...always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM During most of the nineteenth century, the main focus of American foreign... | |
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Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant... 
