 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...advances to concord, to peace, and to hap- \^^ piness. Concession comes with better grace and i77i more salutary effect from superior power ; it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of man, and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. On the other hand,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede, is obvious from sound and rational...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. Every motive, therefore, of justice and of policy, of dignity and of prudence, urges you to allay the... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1807 - 312 pages
...cotacord, to peace and happiness : for it is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede, is obvious from sound and rational policy. Concession comes wiih better grace, and more salutary effects from superior power ; it reconciles superiority of power... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...to peace, and happiness ; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede, is obvious, from sound and rational...comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superiour power. It reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men, and establishes solid... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness : for that is your...and a wise man in political sagacity ; the friend of Mecsenas, and the eulogist of Augustus. — To him, the adopted son and successor, the first Caesar,... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...happiness: for it is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should firstconcede, is obvious from sound and rational policy. Concession comes with better grace, and more salutary effects from superior power; it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men; and establishes... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...true dignity, tLeln' m** fu"> reward >our »»en'.ion to act with prudence and with j'istice. That you should first concede is obvious from sound and rational policy. Concession comes wi.h belter grace and more salutary effect from the superior The two tribes of Keubeo and of Gad, and... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 514 pages
...dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and to happiness. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. On the other hand, every danger and every hazard impend to deter you from perseverance in the present... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and to happiness. conduct. His spirit was bold and enterprising, man, and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. On the other hand,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and to happiness. Concession comes with better grace and more salutary...reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of man, and establishes solid confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. On the other hand,... | |
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... to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity,... 
