 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 310 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself m the 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 calculi le upon real favors from nation to nation. "Pis all illusion, which experience must cure, which... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character. 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 to discard.'... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having given more. 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....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.... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which ajust pride ought... | |
 | Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 pages
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingatitude for not giving more. 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... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1847 - 356 pages
...having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for no* 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 to discard.... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....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.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....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... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more....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... | |
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... that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another, that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character, that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having... 
