 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...possession of the place would be hardly felt by us, and it would not, perhaps, be very long before some circumstance might arise, which might make the...eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...possession of the place would be hardly felt by us, and it would not, perhaps, be Tcry long before some circumstance might arise, which might make the...to us the price of something of more worth to her. Kot so can it ever be in the hands of France : the impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...possession of the place would be hardly felt by us, and it would not, perhaps, be very long before some circumstance might arise, which might make the...eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...be very long before some circumstance might arise, JEFFERSON OBJECTS TO FRANCE AS A NEIGHBOUR. 253 which might make the cession of it to us the price...eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...perpetuation of its existence or the increase of its power. But this does not at all impinge on the fact that of it to us the price of something of more worth to her. Not so can it ever be in the hands of Prance. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, placed in a point... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 704 pages
...perpetuation of its existence or the increase of its power. But this does not at all impinge on the fact that of it to us the price of something of more worth to...eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...perpetuation of its existence or the increase of its power. But this does not at all impinge on the fact that of it to us the price of something of more worth to her. Not so can it eyer be in the hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...existence or the increase of its power. But this does not at all impinge on the fact that of it to us tlie price of something of more worth to her. Not so can it ever be in the bauds of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, placed... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...Mexico. " France" said Jefferson, "placing herself in that door assumes to its the attitude of defiance. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness...character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, &c. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1868 - 758 pages
...possession of the place would be hardly felt by us, and it would not, perhaps, be very long before some circumstance might arise, which might make the...eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... | |
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Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character... 
