 | Noah Webster - 1832 - 340 trang
...condition of having; given equivalents for norm? lial favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error...calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. 30. In' offering... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 trang
...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...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 trang
...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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 trang
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favour, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not 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... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1832 - 360 trang
...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...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 trang
...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...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish;... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 trang
...condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. "Pis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 trang
...condition of having given equivalents for nom-inal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish—that... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 trang
...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...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish—that... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 650 trang
...nations unless they are backed by strength. "There can be no greater error," says General Washington, "than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." It is the happy... | |
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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 to discard. 
