| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 trang
...us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 trang
...provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. " Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 trang
...wars, and to the enjoyment of all the great advantages of that relation. " Why, then," he asks us, " why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| William Hickey - 1854 - 590 trang
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 trang
...European wars, and to the enjoyment of all the great advantages of that relation. "Why, then," he asks us, "why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 trang
...provocation— when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground 1 ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle... | |
| One of 'em - 1855 - 330 trang
...shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice ? It is our true... | |
| Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 342 trang
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 trang
...us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall niunsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our... | |
| 1845 - 74 trang
...provocations ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon r foreign ground 1 Why, by interweaving our < destiny with that of any part of Europe, eu-< :angle... | |
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