 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...Clemens. WASHINGTON has said : " There can be no greater error than to expeet or caleulate upon any real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, and which a just pride ought to discard." There is a deep wisdom in this; and he who disregards, or... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 76 pages
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. Tis an illusion which experience must cure^ which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. — 'T is an illusion which experience must cure, which a...offering to you, my Countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression, I could... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real...countrymen, these counsels of an old affectionate friend, 1 dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish — that they will control... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real...is an illusion which experience must cure — which just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old affectionate... | |
 | United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...•with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate on real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." We have now little to fear from French influence or example, at least in a political point of view,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having given more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illu-" sion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 330 pages
...for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. Fhere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real...offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 608 pages
...being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to fexpect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation....offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish... | |
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon, real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. 
