 Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate...  Life of George Washington - Pagina 394door Washington Irving - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1853 - 514 pagina’s
...political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a...remote relation^ Hence, she must be engaged in frequent controverts, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must... | |
 | United States. President - 1853 - 544 pagina’s
...were. that Europe had a set of primary interests, which to us had none, or a very remote relation. That hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which were essentially foreign to our concerns. That our detached and distant situation invited and enabled... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pagina’s
...political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a...it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 pagina’s
...political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a...it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 pagina’s
...political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a...it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions... | |
 | Eric Nordlinger - 1996 - 346 pagina’s
...In Washington's stentorian words, "Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the cause of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise for us... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 pagina’s
...interests, which have to us none, or a very remote relation." European interests were the source of "frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns." It was therefore unwise — that is, against American interests — "to implicate ourselves, by artificial... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 pagina’s
...political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled, with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a...it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 pagina’s
...concerns: Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation, Hence the must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes...concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to imphcare ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her pohtics. . . . Our detached... | |
 | John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 pagina’s
...sections of the text. A few examples will suffice: Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence, she must...the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns.7 Referring to "our detached and distant situation," which enables us to pursue "a different... | |
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