 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 378 pages
...policy. 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. 25. So likewise a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject: at other times, it makes the...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, and sometimes, perhaps, the liberty, of nations has been the victim. So likewise a passionate attachment... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity...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... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...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 - 1833 - 248 pages
...propensity ; and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject. At other times, it makes thetmimosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility,...another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity...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... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the...a passionate attachment of one nation for another, pro duces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the...a passionate attachment of one nation for another, pro dures a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
