 | United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...popularity; gilding with a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...foreign influence, in innumerable ways, such attachments urc particularly alarming to the truly enlightened- and independent patriot. How many opportunities... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation to a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation to a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment of a small or weak nation toward a great and powerful one, dooms the former to... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 340 pages
...the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the art of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...the appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish...to tamper with domestic factions, to practise the art of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils ! Such an attachment... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1975 - 284 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. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Legislative hearings - 1976 - 1248 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. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Lefebvre - Political Science - 1992 - 372 pages
...popularity. Many opportunities existed for foreign nations "to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe public councils!" Washington thus cautioned his fellow citizens to "steer clear of permanent alliances... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base of foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation....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... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 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...avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways such attachmerits are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities... | |
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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... 
