 | John Adams - United States - 1841 - 314 pages
...party will provoke all Europe by their insolence. But my country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived ; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate. The... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1842 - 456 pages
...19th of December, 1793, he wrote to Mr«. Adams — " My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived, or his imagination conceived." He enjoyed, however, the confidence of Washington, with whose political views his own were in exact... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1856 - 716 pages
...party will provoke all Europe by their insolence. But my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. And as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others, and meet the common fate. "... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...Vice-President beneath his talents. " My country," writes he, " has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."' Impatient of a situation in which, as he said, he could do neither good nor evil, he resorted, for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pages
...talents. " My country," writes he, " has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insigx nificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."* Impatient of a situation in which, as he said, he could do neither good nor evil, he resorted, for... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...VicePresident beneath his talents. " My country," writes he, "has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."* Impatient of a situation in which, as he said, he could do neither good nor evil, he resorted, for... | |
 | Universalism - 1868 - 1048 pages
...speaks of his position as Vice President in this way : " My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived, or his imagination conceived ; and, as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 634 pages
...Vice President beneath his talents. " My country," writes he, " has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."1 Im• patient of a situation in which, as he said, he could do neither good nor evil,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1871 - 602 pages
...during the two years of the first Congress, he gave the casting vote. It was always then in favour of Washington's Administration, and the measures supported...contributions to the public service between 1789 and 1797. He disliked two men, the most powerful in Washington's Cabinet ; nay, he hated them ! Jefferson,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1871 - 256 pages
...during the two years of the first Congress, he gave the casting vote. It was always then in favour of Washington's Administration, and the measures supported...contributions to the public service between 1789 and 1797. He disliked two men, the most powerful in Washington's Cabinet ; nay, he hated them ! Jefferson,... | |
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But my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. 
