 The impressions, with which I first undertook the arduous trust, were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the...  Eloquence of the United States - Page 1111827Full view - About this book
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 pages
...this trust, I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions...has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself ; arid every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 pages
...this trust, 1 will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions...experience, in my own eyes — perhaps still more in the ey.'s of others — has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1855 - 338 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization 'and administration of the Government the best exertions...experience, in my own eyes — perhaps still more in the ey.'s of others — has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that 1 Jiave, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions...the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in n:y own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 pages
...qualifications, experience in icy own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has itrengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day...me more and more, that the shade of retirement is aa necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that if any circumstances have given peculiar... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 350 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions...weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the abode of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances... | |
 | John G. Wells - 1856 - 156 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that 1 have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions...inferiority of my qualifications, experience, in my own eyes—perhaps still more in the eyes of others—has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself;... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 406 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgement was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...this trust, I will only say, that I «ave, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions...strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every dny the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as... | |
 | 1857 - 668 pages
...of this trust I will only say, that I have with good intentions contributed towards the organization and administration of the government, the best exertions...own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, Las strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years... | |
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