 | Noah Webster - 1832 - 340 pages
...equivalents for norm? lial 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. 30. In' offering... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...given equivalents 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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. " IN offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...given equivalents 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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture,... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...given equivalents for nominal favour, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favours from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1832 - 360 pages
...given equivalents 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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. • " In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 pages
...given equivalents 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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1834 - 148 pages
...equivalents for nominal favours, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favours from nation to nation. "Pis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 pages
...given equivalents 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...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 pages
...equivalents for nom-inal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate...experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 650 pages
...nations unless they are backed by strength. "There can be no greater error," says General Washington, "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." It is the happy... | |
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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. 
