 | Statesmen - 1824 - 518 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligations, commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 742 pages
...the appearance of a virtu"ous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for " public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the " base or foolish compliances of ambition or infatuation." 1 am willing that this paragraph should be regarded as a fit set ofl' for the whole... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental...opinion ; to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudible zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances...public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference...compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. LESSON CXXXIV. Obligations resting upon the People of the United States to preserve the Union.—DANIEL... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...the. appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or c. laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, euch attachments are particularly alarming Jo the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 378 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. 26. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming... | |
 | Sir William Gore Ouseley - History - 1832 - 266 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." He further says : — " The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...opinion, to influence or awe the public councils; such an attachment of a small or weak, towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, or a laudable zeal for public good, the foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation....public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation, dooms the former to be... | |
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As avenues to foreign influence, in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions ; to practise the arts of seduction... 
