 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...half of our inhabitants. France, placing herself in that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. Spain might have retained it quietly for years. Her...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 - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...administration. acter, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...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 - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...our char37* acter, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation oit earth ; these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue... | |
 | 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...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 - 442 pages
...whilst our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in 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 can continue long friends,... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...and our character, which, though quiet, and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is highminded ; despising wealth in competition with insult or injury ; enterprising and energetic as any nation on the earth — " these circumstances rendered it impossible that France and the United States could... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 620 pages
...and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 618 pages
...and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is high-minded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...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... | |
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France : the 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... 
