 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 Seiten
...have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best, which circumstances would permit ; yet I may have been very...may, in many instances, deserve the imputation of errour." To a friend in New England, who expressed byfetter his anxiety in consequence of a report... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 Seiten
...have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best which circumstances would permit ; yet I may have been very...many instances, deserve the imputation of error." To a friend in New England, who expressed, by letter, his anxiety in consequence of a report that he... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - 1809 - 274 Seiten
...unremitted aim to do the best which circumstances would penriit ; vet 1 may have been very often mistaken iu my judgment of the means, and may in many instances deserve the imputation of error." Upon this subject, and upan the dn adfi:\ distresses of the army, which he says in one place " must... | |
 | Thomas Northmore - 1809 - 268 Seiten
...aim to do the best which circumstauccs would permit; yet I may have been very often mil't,iken iu mv judgment of the means, and may in many instances deserve the imputation of error." Upon this subject, and upon the dreadful distresses of the army, which he says in one place "must inevitably... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1826 - 238 Seiten
...have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best, which circumstances would permit ; yet I may have been very...may, in many instances, deserve the imputation of errour." To a friend in New-England, who expressed by letter his anxiety in consequence of a report... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 600 Seiten
...Merit and talents, with which I can have no pretensions of rivalship, have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me, that it has been my unremitted...in many instances deserve the imputation of error. I cannot forbear repeating, that I have a grateful sense of the favorable disposition you have manifested... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 594 Seiten
...Merit and talents, with which I can have no pretensions of rivalship, have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me, that it has been my unremitted...in many instances deserve the imputation of error. I cannot forbear repeating, that I have a grateful sense of the favorable disposition you have manifested... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 590 Seiten
...Merit and talents, with which I can have no pretensions of rivalship, have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me, that it has been my unremitted...in many instances deserve the imputation of error. I cannot forbear repeating, that I have a grateful sense of the favorable disposition you have manifested... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 534 Seiten
...have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best which circumstances would permit. Yet I may have been very...many instances deserve the imputation of error."* * See note No. XII. at the end of the volume. Fortunately for America, these combinations only excited... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 Seiten
...have ever been subject to it. My heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best which circumstances would permit; yet I may have been very...in many instances, deserve the imputation of error. About this time it was rumored that Washington had determined to resign his command. On this occasion... | |
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... it is of the utmost moment to conceal. But why should I expect to be exempt from censure, the unfailing lot of an elevated station? Merit and talents, with which I can have no pretensions of rivalship, have ever been subject to it. My heart tells... 
