 | 1853 - 514 strani
...habitual fondness, is, in some degree, a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...intractable when accidental or trifling occasions ot dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - 1853 - 354 strani
...[an]79 habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...interest. — Antipathy in one Nation against another [80] disposes eacli more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 strani
...habitual fondness, is, in some degree, a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection ; either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 strani
...habitual fondness, •s in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! it is rendered impossible by its vices. Hence, frequent... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Lefebvre - 1992 - 372 strani
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. — George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796 Foreign influence and the "variety of evils"... | |
 | J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - 1993 - 134 strani
...cultivated. . . . Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each one readily to offer insult and umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. . . . So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 strani
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests, the nation prompted by ill will... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 strani
...an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from...contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, some times impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - 1995 - 140 strani
...habitual hatred or habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave ... to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest." Negotiations like the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, which resulted in a Strategic Arms Limitation... | |
 | Harry G. Summers - 1995 - 280 strani
...an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affections, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interests. . . . common interest exists . . . betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels... | |
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy... 
