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" In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. "
The Old Stone House, Or, The Patriot's Fireside - Page 129
by Joseph Alden - 1848 - 143 pages
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. The men, who oppose...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time ...

George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. The men, who oppose...
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The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time ...

George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. The men, who oppose...
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The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence ..., Volume 9

George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. The men, who oppose...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1850 - 514 pages
...find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I alniost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of the Convention, and do, therefore, repent having any agency in the business. The men who oppose a strong and energetic...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 526 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of the Convention, and do, therefore, repent having any agency in the business. The men who oppose a strong and energetic...
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pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as ...

George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our convention, and do therefore repent having had any agency in the business. The men, who oppose...
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The Lost Principle: Or, The Sectional Equilibrium: how it was Created--how ...

John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 278 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our Convention, and do, therefore, repent having had any agency in the business." ******* "I am sorry...
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The Lost Principle: Or, The Sectional Equilibrium: how it was Created--how ...

John Scott - Sectionalism (U.S.) - 1860 - 282 pages
...you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed. In a word, I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of our Convention, and do, therefore, repent having had any agency in the business." *******"! am sorry...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 892 pages
...thought that the Convention must give up in despair. Even Washington said, in writing to a friend, "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of the Convention, and do therefore regret having had any agency in the business." But the patriots fainted not. They continued...
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