 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country...incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, at myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. " Relying on its kindness in this, aa in other things,... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...maybe, 1 fervently beseech the AL MIGHTY to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend ! I shall also carry with me the hope, that my country...indulgence; and that, after forty-five years of my life dedieated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned... | |
 | Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my country...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest." Not many of his countrymen had hearts so cold as to be indifferent to this tender and instructive farewell,... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 340 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country...myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on it» kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert and mitigate the evils to which they may tend. 1 shall also carry with me the hope, that my...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. ^ How far, in the discharge of my official duties, I have been guided by the principles which have... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country...rest. " RELYING on its kindness in this as in other thing;., and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my country...cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty -five years of my life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest." Jefferson, in his residence at Monticello, writes, after the death of one of his two children, " My... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country...dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal, the fault of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 294 pages
...that my country will never cease to view them with indiligence, and that after forty-five years of a life dedicated to its service, with an upright zeal,...mansions of rest. " Relying on its kindness in this as in all other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views... | |
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I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may... 
