 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pages
...then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship ; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship ; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale, and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 pages
...if, to facilitate this, we can effect a division in the body of the European powers, and draw o«pr to our side its most powerful member, surely we should...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 pages
...to depart from it. And if, to facilitate this, we can effect a division in the body of the Egropean powers, and draw over to our side its most powerful...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale, and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...effect a division in the body of the European powers, and draw over to our side its most power ful member, surely we should do it. But I am clearly of...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent, instead of prj yoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from <fe;: scale, and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pages
...then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship ; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 pages
...keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with tlie affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 pages
...in the same cause. Not that I would purchase even her amity at the price of taking part in her ware. But the war in which the present proposition might...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pages
...the price of taking part in her wars. But the war in which the present proposition might engage èç, should that be its consequence, is not her war, but...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 766 pages
...of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affaire of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle,...Canning's opinion, that it will prevent instead of provoking war. With Great Britain withdrawn from their scale and shifted into that of our two continents,... | |
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But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those... 
