 | Furman Sheppard - Constitutional law - 1855 - 342 pages
...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1951 - 1006 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Legislative hearings - 1961 - 1176 pages
...little political connection as possible * * * 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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Biography & Autobiography - 1962 - 296 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 188 pages
...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... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...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 - Art - 1996 - 432 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
