 | 1840 - 974 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth.' Tliis renders all nejociations with them on public natters almost entirely fruitless, as no reliance... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth." This renders all negotiations with them on public matters almost entirely fruitless, as no reliance... | |
 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth." This renders all negotiations with them on public matters almost entirely fruitless, as no reliance... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth." This renders all negotiations with them on public matters almost entirely fruitless, as no reliance... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1851 - 584 pages
...acquiescence: they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations ot truth." This renders all negotiations with them on public matters almost entirely fruitless, as... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 506 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth." This renders all negotiations with them on public matters almost entirely fruitless without material... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - 1926 - 784 pages
...acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection: they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth.' — Barrow. ' The Chinese . . . are in general of a mild and humane disposition, but violent and vindictive... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 910 pages
...treaty of peace, and wi(h more address than some treaties of poace have been neguciatcd. " As a direet refusal to any request would betray a want of good...obligations of truth. So little scrupulous, indeed, arc they with regard to veracity, that they will assert and contradict without blushing, as it may... | |
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As a direct refusal," he observes, " to any request would betray a want of good breeding, every proposal finds their immediate acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible... 