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3979. INSULT, Resenting.—

It is inconsistent
for a nation which has been patiently
bearing for ten years the grossest insults and
injuries from their late enemies[the British] to rise at a feather against their friends and
benefactors[the French].—
Opinion on Little Sarah. Washington ed. ix, 154. Ford ed., vi, 342.
(1793)