 | Daniel Wait Howe - Courts - 1895 - 614 pages
...loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is highminded, despising wealth in competition with insult and injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on...it impossible that France and the United States can long continue friends when they meet in so irritable a position." The consequence which he foresaw... | |
 | Alexander Francis Morrison - Monroe doctrine - 1896 - 62 pages
...Bonaparte, that this act would convert France into "our natural and habitual enemy." He says: "It is impossible that France and the United States can continue...friends when they meet in so irritable a position. . . . We must be very improvident if we do not begin to make arrangements on that hypothesis. The day... | |
 | Edward Bicknell - United States - 1899 - 136 pages
...us and our character, which, though quiet and loving peace and the pursuit of wealth, is highminded, despising wealth in competition with insult or injury,...friends when they meet in so irritable a position." And, certainly, it appeared very ominous to peace when Spain, plainly under French influence, interdicted... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1899 - 752 pages
...high-minded — despising wealth in competition with insult or injury — and energetic as any nation — these circumstances render it impossible that France...they meet in so irritable a position. They as well us we must be blind if they do not see this, and we must be very improvident if we do not begin to... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 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,...circumstances render it impossible that France and the US can continue long friends when they meet in so irritable a position. They as well as we must be... | |
 | United States - 1900 - 784 pages
...character, placed in a point of eternal friction with us and our character, are circumstances which render it impossible that France and the United States...friends when they meet in so irritable a position." Here is shown the great primary motive that influenced Jefferson to action. With the Gulf in hostile... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 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, enterprising and energetic as any nation on sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations... | |
 | Henry Childs Merwin - 1901 - 186 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,...friends when they meet in so irritable a position. . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy — it is New Orleans. * * * It is impossible that France and the United States can continue...friends when they meet in so irritable a position. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever... | |
 | John Randolph Spears, Alzamore H. Clark - Mississippi River Valley - 1903 - 706 pages
...New Orleans. * * * France placing herself at that door, assumes to us the attitude of defiance. * * * Circumstances render it impossible that France and...friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans * * * we must marry ourselves to the British fleet... | |
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... despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth; these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position. 
