 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is,...might be affected. All I dare hope is, that if in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is,...might be affected. All I dare hope is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 438 pages
...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotion, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study...might be affected. All I dare hope is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1868 - 694 pages
...unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is,...appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be effected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1868 - 678 pages
...duties of civil administration. In this conflict of emotions, he had faithfully studied to collect his duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected ; and if, in forming his conclusion, he had been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former... | |
 | James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...constrained, unnatural one, ever anxious, to use his own admirable and touching words, "to collect his duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. " This noble solicitude made him seem, to the slighter men around him, slow and over-cautious. He who... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is,...might be affected. All I dare hope is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is,...circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hepe is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of... | |
 | William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1874 - 634 pages
...the happiness of our constituents; that in the discharge of executive functions I was ever solicitous to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. I heard with attention, and endeavored to decide with integrity. I had a wish, it is true, to regard... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is that...every circumstance by which it might be affected. AH I dare hope is, that if in accepting this task I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance... | |
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In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. 
