 | Guy Carleton Lee - Orators - 1900 - 408 pages
...understood, however, distinctly as not meaning to say that I dread war in a good cause (and in no other way may it be the lot of this country ever to engage !)...which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...which entirely satisfied my judgment that nothing short of a point of national faith or national honor would justify, at the present moment, any voluntary...which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 274 pages
...understood, however, distinctly as not meaning to say that I dread war in a good cause (and in no other way may it be the lot of this country ever to engage!)...which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting... | |
 | Sir Edgar Rees Jones - English orations - 1913 - 410 pages
...Portugal. Sir, I set out with saying that there were reasons which entirely satisfied my judgement that nothing short of a point of national faith or...which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negotiations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting... | |
 | Harold William Vazeille Temperley - Europe - 1925 - 680 pages
...commence it, or of her resources to maintain it. I dread it, indeed — but upon far other grounds : / dread it from an apprehension of the tremendous consequences...which we might now be engaged. Some years ago, in the discussion of the negociations respecting the French war against Spain, I took the liberty of adverting... | |
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I dread war in a good cause, (and in no other may it be the lot of this country ever to engage!) from a distrust of the strength of the country to commence it, or of her resources to maintain it I dread it, indeed — but upon far other grounds: I dread... 
