 | John Gaylord Wells - 1857 - 150 pages
...calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and.adopts, through passion, what reason would reject ; at other...perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation to another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...subservient to projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pornicioas motives. The peace often, sometimes, perhaps, the liberty of nations has been tho victim. "So likewise, n passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - 1858 - 318 pages
...sufficient to lead it astray from its duty or its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury,...perhaps, the liberty of nations has been the victim. " So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1858 - 468 pages
...contests. The. nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the govern, ment, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government...perhaps, the liberty of nations has been the victim. " So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 pages
...to lead it astray from its duty and its interests. — Antipathy in one Nation against another [§] disposes each more readily to offer insult, and injury,...perhaps the Liberty, of Nations has been the victim. — So likewise a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. —... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1859 - 674 pages
...sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes each more 'readily to offer insult and injury,...perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | 1859 - 370 pages
...sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury,...perhaps the liberty of nations, has been the victim. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another, produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - 1859 - 338 pages
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, wliat reason would reject. At other times it makes the animosity...perhaps, the liberty of nations has been the victim. " So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Horace Binney - 1859 - 262 pages
...participates in the [national] propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject;—at other times, it makes the animosity of the Nation...perhaps the Liberty, of Nations, has been the victim.— So likewise a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils.—Sympathy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 pages
...projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.—The peace often, sometimes perhaps the Liberty, of Nations has been the victim.— So likewise a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils.—Sympathy... | |
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Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national... 
