 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 918 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival but sometimes incompatible advantages, that a government must judge when to put...ultimate object must be the peace of the world. That ob-< ject may sometimes be best attained by prompt exertions — sometimes by abstinence from interposition... | |
 | Political primer - Great Britain - 1826 - 208 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival but sometimes incompatible advantages, that a Government must judge when to put...That object may sometimes be best attained by prompt «xertions—sometimes by abstinence from the interposition in contests which we cannot prevent. It... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 216 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival but sometimes incompatible advantages, that a Government must judge when to put...the peace of the world. That object may sometimes bu best attained by prompt exertions — sometimes by abstinence from the interposition in contests... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival, but sometimes incompatible, advantages, that a government must judge when to put...object must be the peace of the world. That object may sometimei be best attained by prompt exertions — sometimes by abstinence from interposition in contests... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 526 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival, but sometimes incompatible advantages, that a government must judge when to put...and when to husband it for occasions yet to come." , Mr. Canning illustrated this principle by a reference to the conduct of the British government in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1828 - 628 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival, but sometimes incompatible advantages, that a government must judge when to put...and when to husband it for occasions yet to come." Mr. Canning illustrated this principle by a reference to the conduct of the British government in abstaining... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. Our ultimate object must be the peace of the world....cannot prevent. It is upon these principles, that it did not appear to the Government of this country to be necessary, that Great Britain should mingle... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. Our ultimate object must be the peace of the world....contests which we cannot prevent. It is upon these prmciples, that it did not appear to the government of this country to be necessary, that Great Britain... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. Our ultimate object must be the peace of the world....That object may sometimes be best attained by prompt exertions—sometime* by abstinence from interposition in contests which we cannot prevent. It is upon... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting duties, and of rival, but sometimes incompatible, advantages, that a government must judge when to put forth its strength, and when to husband it for occasion yet to come. be necessary that Great Britain should mingle in the recent contest hetween France... | |
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... are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. It is upon a just balance of conflicting... 
