"Counteractive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nature of their economical utility to the mother country, and their consequent commercial regulation, had undergone no enlargement, but rather had been intensified in narrowness and rigor by the loss of so valuable a part of the whole. No counteractive effect to this prepossession was to be found in contemporary opinion in Europe. The French Revolution itself, subversive as it was of received views in many respects, was at the first characterized rather by an exaggeration of the traditional ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan |
