 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 Seiten
...propensity 12* and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace, often the liberty of nations, has been the victim. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation to... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...propensity 12* and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility...sinister and pernicious motives. The peace, often the liberty of nations, has been the victim. . . So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - 1846 - 334 Seiten
...propensity, and adopts through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility...common interest, in cases where no real common interest exist, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1846 - 240 Seiten
...subservient to the projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and ambitious motives. The peace often, sometimes, perhaps, 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 common... | |
 | William Hickey - 1846 - 396 Seiten
...propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility,...peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations hag been the victim. So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation to another produces a variety... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 Seiten
...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,...another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common... | |
 | Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 Seiten
...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,...another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nations, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interßst in cases where no real... | |
 | George Washington - 1848 - 612 Seiten
...propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility...and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace ofien, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim. So likewise, a passionate attachment... | |
 | Levi Carroll Judson - 1848 - 364 Seiten
...propensity, and adopts through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility...common interest, in cases where no real common interest exist, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1848 - 146 Seiten
...propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity 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... | |
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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... 
