 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...State, for which permit me here to return you my very humble thanks. Could any circumstance induce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I can not be insensible to my inequality to it ; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
 | William Linn - Presidents - 1834 - 284 pages
...Secretary of State; for which permit me here to return yon my humble thanks. Could any circumstances seduce me to overlook the disproportion between its...office, embracing as it does the principal mass of domestick administration, together with the foreign, I cannot be insensible of my inequality to it;... | |
 | William Linn - Presidents - 1834 - 282 pages
...overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents, it would be the encouragement of your choic& But when I contemplate the extent of that office, embracing as it does the principal mass of domestick administration, together with the foteign, I cannot be insensible of my inequality to it;... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...be the encouragement of your choice ; but when I contemplate the extent of that office, embrac ing, as it does, the principal mass of domestic administration,...should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from the criticism and censures of a public, just indeed, in their intentions, but sometimes misinformed and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...nomination of me to the very dignified office of Secretary of State, for which, permit me here to return 1on my humble thanks. Could any circumstance seduce me...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I cansr be insensible of my inequality to it ; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents, it would be the encouragement of TOOT choice. But when I contemplate the extent of that...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I cannr be insensible of my inequality to it ; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 596 pages
...be the encouragement of your choice ; but when I contemplate the extent of that office, embrac ing, as it does, the principal mass of domestic administration,...should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from the criticism and censures of a public, just indeed, in their intentions, but sometimes misinformed and... | |
 | Presidents United States Biography - 1871 - 448 pages
...State, for which permit me here to return you my very humble thanks. Could any circumstance induce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I can not be insensible to my inequality to it; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...his hand. To these letters the following reply was written : — "CHESTERFIELD, December 15, 1789. " Sm, — I have received at this place the honor of...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I can not be insensible of my inequality to it ; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1895 - 562 pages
...State for which permit me here to return to you my very humble thanks. Could any circumstance induce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties...domestic administration, together with the foreign, I can not be insensible to my inequality to it ; and I should enter on it with gloomy forebodings from... | |
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Could any circumstance seduce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents, it would be the encouragement of your choice. But when I contemplate the extent of that office, embracing, as it does, the principal mass of domestic administration,... 
