 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 էջ
...to continue and be lasting. " The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial...engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it." They add a strong condemnation of privateering. (See Diplomatic Correspondence, vol. 2, pp. 237, 238.)... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - 1863 - 536 էջ
...Santissimn Trindad, 7 Wheat., 283. ficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all who are engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it. In the beginning of a war, some rich ships, not upon their guard, are surprised and taken. This encourages the first adventurers to fit out more... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 էջ
...to continue and be lasting. The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas — a renmant of the ancient piracy — though it may be accidentally beneficial...are surprised and taken. This encourages the first adventurers to fit out more armed vessels : and many others to do the same. But the eneinv at the same... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1864 - 454 էջ
...originates. " The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, fliough it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons,...engaged 'in it, or to the nation that authorizes it." " There are three employments which I wish the law of nations would protect, so that they should never... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1871 - 492 էջ
...plunder in which it originates. a The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial...all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it.'3 " There are three employments which I wish the law of nations would protect, so that they should... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1872 - 504 էջ
...plunder in which it originates. " The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial...engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it." "There are three employments which I wish the law of nations would protect, so that they should never... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1875 - 460 էջ
...plunder in which it originates. ' The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial...profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorises it.' ' There are three employments which I wish the law of nations would protect, so that... | |
 | 1879 - 826 էջ
...the high seas, a remnant of the ancient piracy, though it may be accidentally beneficial to public persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it." And again: "The United States, though better situated than any other nation to profit by privateering,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 626 էջ
...beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the natior. that authorizes it. In the beginning of a war, some...are surprised and taken. This encourages the first adventurers to fit out more armed vessels, and many others to do the same. But the enemy at the same... | |
 | Charles Loring Brace - 1882 - 530 էջ
...ancient piracy, though it may be accidenta!!y beneficial to public persons, is far from being pronrab's to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it. 9 ' And again, "The United States though better situated than any other nation to profit by privateering,... | |
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The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas — a remnant of the ancient piracy — though it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it. 
