Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an... The Life of George Washington .... - Página 184por Aaron Bancroft - 1848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Alfred W. Crosby - 1993 - 236 páginas
...Washington to include in his Farewell Address one of those peculiarly American anticipatory boasts: "the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."33 The census of 1800 confirmed... | |
| Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 páginas
...combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
| Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...recall again Washington's articulation in the Farewell Address of the advantages of self-sufficiency: If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may... | |
| Eric Nordlinger - 1996 - 346 páginas
...can well afford to remain disengaged. America can "defy material injury from external annoyance" and "cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected." Washington did not expect that belligerent states would somehow be in short supply, but... | |
| Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 páginas
...ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her pohtics. . . . Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belhgerent nations, under the impossibihty of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
| Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 páginas
...people, to surrender their interests. [Text omitted] Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
| Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 páginas
...combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
| Scott L. Bills, E. Timothy Smith - 1997 - 348 páginas
...said, "Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. . . . Under an efficient government, the period is not far...injury from external annoyance; . . . when we may choose peace or war, as our interest guided by justice shall counsel."" Seen in this light, Clinton's... | |
| George Washington - 1998 - 40 páginas
...detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we re[26] main one people under an efficient government, the period...we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1999 - 314 páginas
...combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain...the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to he scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions... | |
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