 I dare hope is, that, if in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens ; and have thence too little...  The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser - Page 81886Full view - About this book
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1854 - 590 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...the impressions under which I have, in obedience to Ihe public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...this transcendant proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...judged by my country with some share of the partiality with which they originated. Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...consequences be judged by my country with some share ol the partiality with which they originated. Such being the impressions under which 1 have, in obedience... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity, as well as disinclination for the weighty...country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.55 With these sentiments, and with fervent supplications to the Almighty Being, whose guidance... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...this transcendant proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...the motives which misled me, and its consequences judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such being the impressions... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 pages
...me ; my orrour will bo palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences bo j•idged by my country, with some share of the partiality in...impressions under which I have, in obedience to the publick summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow citizens ; and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me ; my errour will bo palliated by the motivea which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my country,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...this transcendant proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...the motives which misled me, and its consequences judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such being the impressions... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 822 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my coontry, with some share of the partiality in which they originated. ****** To the preceding observations... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty...the motives which misled me, and its consequences b« judged hy my country with some share ol the partiality with which they originated. Such being the... | |
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