 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 324 sider
...gentle means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the...intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinions will permit, but temporary, and liable to be, from time to time, abandoned or varied, as experience... | |
 | William Russell White - 1951
...who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations; . . . ". . . constantly keeping in view, that it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; . . . There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1962 - 226 sider
...gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing, with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the...circumstances shall dictate; constantly keeping in view, that 'tis folly in one nation to look for disinterested favours from another; that it must pay with a portion... | |
 | Felix Gilbert - 1961 - 173 sider
...streams of Commerce but forcing nothing — establishing with powers so disposed in order to give to Trade a stable course, to define the rights of our Merchants, and enable the Government to support them — conventional rules of intercourse the best that present circumstances... | |
 | Giles B. Gunn - 1994 - 629 sider
...gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the...it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
 | Anders Breidlid, Fredrik C. Brøgger, Oyvind T. Gulliksen, Torbjorn Sirevag - 1996 - 404 sider
...gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the...it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 216 sider
...them. Washington indicated that such commercial agreements could follow conventional rules of trade — "the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion...varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate." It was at this specific point in the Farewell Address that Washington offered his injunction that,... | |
 | Eric Nordlinger - 1996 - 352 sider
...and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing ... in order to give to trade a stable course, to define the rights of our...merchants, and to enable the Government to support them."1 This did not, of course, preclude the use of force to protect our shipping and commerce. At... | |
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... the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary, and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied, as experience and circumstances shall dictate... 
