 Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration, 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...  Handbook of the Administrations of the United States - Page 24by Edward Griffin Tileston - 1871 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1832 - 360 pages
...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 tend. 1 shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease lo view' them with indulgence... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 340 pages
...admits, that he may have committed many errors. " Whatever they may be," he adds, " I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend." assertion, we feel bound to dissent from it as an heretical opinion. The greatness of a man, we admit,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - School management and organization - 1835 - 372 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 294 pages
...fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall always carry with me the hope 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,... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, 1 fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. " Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it,... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...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...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. " Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...not to think it probable that I have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Relying on this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...committed many errors. Whatthey may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate svils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and after forty-five years of my life dedicated... | |
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