 | Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir - 1896 - 1016 pages
...seaman of the old school, which had for its chief article ol faith the celebrated sentiment of Stephen Decatur — "Our country! In her intercourse with...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong," — so when he learned of the proposed expedition of the Confederate emissaries to preach disruption... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. ». COLLINS — Ode Written in 17-46. Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. j. STEPHEN DECATUR — Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816. See MACKENZIE'S Life of Stephen Decatitr.... | |
 | Wallace Foster - 1898 - 120 pages
...our honored land, For home and freedom, God and right, Those earnest women stand. — Geo. C. Davis. Our Country. In her intercourse with foreign nations,...always be in the right, but our Country right or wrong. — Decatur. The first lesson of patriotism should be taught at the mother's knee where the innocent... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 364 pages
...De-ca'tur, who was such a patriot that when asked to give a toast at a public dinner he proudly cried: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" 63 This young man bravely offered to steal into the harbor and destroy the ship. His offer was discussed,... | |
 | Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1888 - 1899 - 178 pages
...following list of toasts : — TOASTS. "" / JC DANN — Toastmaster. OUR COUNTRY, . . . . WS MASON "Our Country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. — Stephen Decatur. YALE, . . . . . JC DANN " The Lord of learning who upraised mankind From being... | |
 | Edith Augusta Sawyer - 1899 - 386 pages
...them, and wishful to help them. George Eliot. Spríl 19. (PATRIOTS' DAY.) WAR WITH SPAIN BEGUN, 1898. OUR country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong. Stephen Decatur, MAY we not say . . . that the hour of spiritual enfranchisement is even this : When... | |
 | Frank E. Edwards - 1899 - 396 pages
...to the man whose avowed principal motive was patriotism. And if sympathy with the famous remark, " Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations...be in the right ; but our country, right or wrong !" can be called enlisting from patriotism, then the great majority of the men must have that credit,... | |
 | Holland Society of New York - 1900 - 284 pages
...situation but that the toast of Stephen Decatur, Commodore of the American Navy, rings in my ears — "Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be right ! But, right or wrong, — our country ! " The True American to-day stands conspicuously in the... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...territory along with it. Decatur, Stephen ( American, 1751-1808.) « Right or Wrong, Our Country» — Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right ; but our Country, right or wrong. — ( A toast m 1816.) Demosthenes ( Greece, 384-322 В. C.) Exordium of the « Oration on the Crown... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pages
...territory along with it Decatur, Stephen ( American, 1751-1808.) « Eight or Wrong, Our Country" — Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations,...be in the right ; but our Country, right or wrong. — (A toast in 1816.) Demosthenes ( Greece, 384-322 BC) Exordium of the « Oration on the Crown »... | |
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. 
