 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 656 pages
...is high minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth; these circumstances render it...blind if they do not see this; and we must be very improvi4ent if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation oit earth ; these circumstances render it impossible that...blind, if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident.if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day that France takes possession... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth, are circumstances which render it impossible that France and the United States...hypothesis. The day that France takes possession of New-Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her for ever within her lowwater mark. It seals... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it...a position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they'do not sec this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to mnke arrangements on that... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it...States can continue long friends, when they meet in eo irritable a position. They, as well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 642 pages
...is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it...well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; arid we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...¡з high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it...when they meet in so irritable a position. They, as weh1 as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; and we must be very improvident if we do not begin... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it impossible that Franco and the United States can continue long friends, when...that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentenco which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1868 - 758 pages
...is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth ; these circumstances render it...well as we, must be blind if they do not see this ; aud we must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, . . . render it impossible that France and the United States...friends when they meet in so irritable a position. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, . . . from that moment we must marry ourselves... | |
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... impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us, and our character, which, though quiet, and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition... 
