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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ... - Page 500
by Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 560 pages
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First Lessons in Civil Government: Including a Comprehensive View of the ...

Andrew White Young - Law - 1846 - 240 pages
...support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinions will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from...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...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...arising form an ample compensation?' In his parting address, in reference to these matters, ho says, ' that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested...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 ;...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 772 pages
...arising form an ample compensation?' In his parting address, in reference to these matters, he says, ' that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favours from another : th.it it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character....
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The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the ...

Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and natural opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from...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...
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Statistical View of the Executive and Legislative Department of the ...

Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 pages
...support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and natural opinion will permit, but temporary and liable to be, from...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...
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pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

George Washington - United States - 1848 - 612 pages
...dictate ; constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another ; that it must pay with a portion of...whatever it may accept under that character ; that, hy such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors,...
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The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of ...

Levi Carroll Judson - Conduct of life - 1848 - 364 pages
...support them, conventional rales of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from...disinterested favours from another ; that it must pay with & portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character ; that by such acceptance,...
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Lives of the Heroes of the American Revolution ... Also Embracing the ...

John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and natural opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from...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...
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The Lives of the Presidents of the United States: Embracing a Brief History ...

Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1848 - 146 pages
...them — conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinions will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from...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...
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The Principles of Civil Government Familiarly Illustrated: Including a ...

Andrew White Young - United States - 1848 - 304 pages
...support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and natural opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from...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...
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