The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject... A Compendium of American Literature - Page 88by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 740 pagesFull view - About this book
| History - 1807 - 772 pages
...ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the governme'nr, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would rejeitj at other times' it makes the *;шпилгу of the nation subservient to projects' of hostility,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations has been the victim. " So likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
| John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...by ill-wiU and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...the animosity of the nation subservient to projects ot hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1809 - 396 pages
...ill-will and relemment, sometimes impels to war the government, con. :rary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...adopts, through passion, what reason would reject ; at trther times it makes the animosity of the nation subser-^ vieui to projects of hostility, instigated... | |
| David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the governrftnt. contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations, has been the victim. " So, likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1813 - 350 pages
...ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calcula tions of policy. The government sometimes participates in...animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hoslility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,... | |
| David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 pages
...by pride, ambition and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes pen-' haps the liberty of nations, has been the victim. " So,...a passionate attachment of one nation for another, produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary... | |
| Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...The government sometimes participates in the national "propensity, and adopts, through passion, w hat reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations, has been the victim.' So likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
| Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...sinister, and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. 31. So, likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
| Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations, has been the victim. So likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
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