 | 1869 - 186 pages
...barbarians — a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...engagements. If, sir, there could be a resurrection from the foot of the gallows, if the victims of justice could live again, collect together, and form a society,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...observed by barbarians—a whiff of tobacco smoke or a string of beads gives not merely binding force but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers a truce may...wise or too just to disown and annul its obligation." Ames was a scholar, and his speeches are more finished and thoughtful, more literary, in a way, than... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...of tobacco smoke or a string of beads gives not merely binding force but sanctity to treaties. Kvtn in Algiers a. truce may be bought for money, but,...wise or too just to disown and annul its obligation." Ames was a scholar, and his speeches are more finished and thoughtful, more literary, in a way, than... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...by barbarians — a whiff of tobacco-smoke or a string of beads gives not merely binding force but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers a truce may...wise or too just to disown and annul its obligation." Ames was a scholar, and his speeches are more finished and thoughtful, more literary, in a way, than... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...by barbarians : a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...savages, nor the principles of an association for privacy and rapine, permit a nation to despise its engagements. If, sir, there could be a resurrection... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - 442 pages
...barbarians — a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string1 of beads, gives not merely binding force but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...engagements. If, sir, there could be a resurrection from the foot of the gallows, if the victims of justice could live again, collect together and form a society,... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 pages
...by barbarians. A whiff of tobacco-smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity, to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...or too just, to disown and annul its obligation." On the British treaty in 1/96, Mr. Ames said : " Are the posts of our frontier to remain forever in... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...observed by barbarians. A whiff of tobacco smoke or a string of beads gives not merely binding force, but sanctity, to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may be bought for money ; but when ratitied. even Algiers is too wise, or too just, to disown and annul its obligation. SANCTITY OF TREATIES,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 500 pages
...barbarians — a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...engagements. If, sir, there could be a resurrection from the foot of the gallows, if the victims of justice could live again, collect together and form a society,... | |
 | 1899 - 500 pages
...barbarians — a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may...engagements. If, sir, there could be a resurrection from the foot of the gallows, if the victims of justice could live again, collect together and form a society,... | |
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It is observed by barbarians — a whiff of tobacco smoke, or a string of beads, gives not merely binding force, but sanctity to treaties. Even in Algiers, a truce may be bought for money, but when ratified, even Algiers is too wise, or too just, to disown... 
