| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 596 pages
...partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
| Guizot (M., François) - 1840 - 216 pages
...strict unity of views and conduct. " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."* "In a government as... | |
| François Guizot - 1840 - 262 pages
...conduct in his administration. " I shall not, whilst I have the honour to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide*." And in 1795 he wrote... | |
| George Washington - 1848 - 604 pages
...partial meetings, can be called so. I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures, which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my .opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
| 1849 - 770 pages
...not," said he in 1795, "whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into ¡vn office of consequence, knowingly, whose political...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
| François Guizot - 1863 - 162 pages
...strict unity of views and conduct, "I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide."'^ " In a government as... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Retrenchment - 1868 - 240 pages
...Mount Vernon, September 27, 1795: I shall not, while I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing ; for this, in my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
| Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 pages
...twenty-Seventh, 1795, wherein he says : "I shall "not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...whose political tenets are adverse to the measures winch the general government are pursuing." (Sparks, vol. xi, p. 74.) This, it will be observed, is... | |
| 1882 - 280 pages
...the principle clearly in saying " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence, knowingly,...measures which the general government is pursuing, for this in my opinion would be a sort of political suicide : that it would embarrass its movements... | |
| Republican Congressional Committee - 1882 - 266 pages
...Secretary of War, Washington urges : " I shall not, whilst I have the honor to administer the government, bring a man Into any office of consequence knowingly,...adverse to the measures which the general government are pursuing; for this, In my opinion, would be a sort of political suicide. That it would embarrass... | |
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