| David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 pages
...the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly concious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1821 - 312 pages
...from nature, and unpractifed in the duties of civil adminiftration, ought to be peculiarly confcious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict: of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful ftudy to collect my duty from a juft appreciation of every circumftance by which it might be affected.... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most experieaced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications,...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficience*. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study to... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...other hand, the • magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country culled me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most...experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into liis qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into bis qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence...one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature, aad unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to i be peculiarly conscious of his own... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own VOL. XII. 1 A deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1834 - 640 pages
...the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties ol civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own VOL. XII. 1 A deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful... | |
| George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...overwhelm, with despondence, one, who, inheriting inferiour endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be... | |
| Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 492 pages
...other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country has called me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most...one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature, * In the Iangunge of the Constitution, the term Congress is frequently used, to signify the federal... | |
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