 | Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...placing herself in that door," wrote Jefferson to Livingston, " assumes to us the attitude of defiance. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness...point of eternal friction with us, and our character, . . . these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - United States - 1916 - 598 pages
...possession of the place would hardly be 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... | |
 | Samuel Sidney McClure - World War, 1914-1918 - 1917 - 528 pages
...place would hardly be felt by us, and it would not, perhaps, be very long before some circumstances might arise which might make the cession of it to...her. Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. We can get an understanding of the vital importance of New Orleans from the extraordinary suggestions... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - Presidents - 1918 - 362 pages
...her 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...temper, the energy and restlessness of her character . . . make it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends when they meet... | |
 | George Morgan - Presidents - 1921 - 506 pages
...her possession of the place would hardly be felt by us, and it would not perhaps be very long before some circumstance might arise which might make the...so can it ever be in the hands of France. . . . The day that 1 Writings of Jefferson, Ford, Vol. VIII, p. 58. He again referred to it May 29. November... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1921 - 712 pages
...Her pacific dispositions, her feeble state would induce her to increase our facilities there. . . . Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Political parties - 1925 - 652 pages
...her 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... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...increase our facilities there, so that her possession of the place would be hardly felt by us. ... Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her -forever... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 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... | |
 | Perry Belmont - Tariff - 1926 - 352 pages
...her 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... 
