America's Foreign Relations, Том 1Century Company, 1916 |
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... Envoy at Peking - Refusal to Kneel Before the Emperor - Making the Best of a Difficult Situation . CHAPTER XVIII . THE OPENING OF JAPAN The American Flag in the Dutch Service - First Effort to Establish Inter- course with a Hermit ...
... Envoy at Peking - Refusal to Kneel Before the Emperor - Making the Best of a Difficult Situation . CHAPTER XVIII . THE OPENING OF JAPAN The American Flag in the Dutch Service - First Effort to Establish Inter- course with a Hermit ...
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... envoy to France , to which country he proceeded in June , 1776 , and of whose un- happy doings there we shall hear more . There were also some tentative negotiations with Canada , which came to nothing . The fact was that foreign ...
... envoy to France , to which country he proceeded in June , 1776 , and of whose un- happy doings there we shall hear more . There were also some tentative negotiations with Canada , which came to nothing . The fact was that foreign ...
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... envoy to America -to Franklin , to tell him that the French court was at last con- vinced that the colonies were in earnest and were able to main- tain their independence , and were worthy of recognition , and that it would therefore be ...
... envoy to America -to Franklin , to tell him that the French court was at last con- vinced that the colonies were in earnest and were able to main- tain their independence , and were worthy of recognition , and that it would therefore be ...
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... prudent terms ; wherefore Spain re- fused to make any , or even to recognize him as an official envoy . To return to the French treaty with America . That was made in the winter of Valley Forge . That was 90 AMERICA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS.
... prudent terms ; wherefore Spain re- fused to make any , or even to recognize him as an official envoy . To return to the French treaty with America . That was made in the winter of Valley Forge . That was 90 AMERICA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS.
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... envoy . He was of all men one of the least fitted for diplomacy , and it may be that his unfitness was the cause of the failure of his mission . He was hospitably treated by Frederick's minister , Baron Schulenberg , but was not ...
... envoy . He was of all men one of the least fitted for diplomacy , and it may be that his unfitness was the cause of the failure of his mission . He was hospitably treated by Frederick's minister , Baron Schulenberg , but was not ...
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Страница 204 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Страница 158 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Страница 205 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Страница 204 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Страница 239 - It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States, and will form a new epoch in our political course.
Страница 340 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe, While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Страница 346 - Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
Страница 43 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Страница 171 - We surely cannot deny to any nation that right whereon our own government is founded, that every one may govern itself according to whatever form it pleases, and change these forms at its own will; and that it may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether King.
Страница 205 - ... free people ought to be constantly awake. since history and experience prove that foreign Influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful...