 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 strani
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity ; and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject. At other times, it makes the...perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ? The... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 strani
...The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the...produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 strani
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the...produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 strani
...policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times, it makes the...another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1840 - 256 strani
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity ; arid adopts, through passion, what reason would reject. At other times, it makes the...victim. " So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one na tion for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 384 strani
...policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times, it makes the animosity of the Nation subservient to projects >f hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,... | |
 | William Hobart Hadley - 1840 - 128 strani
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to the projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.... | |
 | 1841 - 460 strani
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to the projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 strani
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to the projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.... | |
 | United States. President - 1842 - 794 strani
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject. At other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to the projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives.... | |
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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 propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at... 
