 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...commensurate with their existence ! 141. AGAINST FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS, 1796. — Georye Washington. AGAINST the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure...influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one Nation, and excessive dislike for another, cause those whom they actuate... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - United States - 1852 - 516 pages
...property. "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly...of the most baneful foes of republican government. " In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...commensurate with their existence ! 141. AGAINST FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS, 1796.— George Washington. influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican...jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial ; else it beeomes the instrument of the verj influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive... | |
 | Periodicals - 1852 - 794 pages
...Against tbe insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow- citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly...history and experience prove that foreign influence it one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, too, to be useful, must... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...most baneful foes of Eepublican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impair tial ; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they... | |
 | Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 pages
...weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure...influence to be avoided, instead .of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike for another, cause those whom they... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 594 pages
...great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the iiisidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe...influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike for another, cause those whom they... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...you to]86 believe me, [fellow citizens],87 the jealousy of a free people ought to be [constantly]8* awake, since history and experience prove that foreign...influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. — Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure...baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy too, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to'be avoided,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...nowhere else found, even in his last affectionate farewell advice to his countrymen, he says, " Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure...of the most baneful foes of republican government." Lastly, on the subject of foreign relations, Washington never forgot that we had interests peculiar... | |
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of... 
