 ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a...  Aubert Dubayet: Or, The Two Sister Republics - Page 377by Charles Gayarré - 1882 - 479 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sherlock A. Bronson - Politicians - 1880 - 292 pages
...the language of complaint employed by my first and greatest predecessor, ' that I have been abused in such exaggerated and indecent terms, as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.' I do, therefore, for the reasons stated,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 736 pages
...in the language of complaint employed by my first and greatest predecessor, that I have been abused "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." I do, therefore, for the reasons stated,... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - Presidents - 1884 - 902 pages
...attacks on him as aggravatingly malicious and personal, and made " in 'terms so exaggerated and indecent as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even a common pickpocket." The Presidential election was held in November, 1796, the electors being chosen... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1885 - 492 pages
...wrote that every act of his administration was tortured, and the grossest misrepresentations made " in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." His farewell address was made public in... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1886 - 504 pages
...wrote that every act of his administration was tortured, and the grossest misrepresentations made " in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." His farewell address was made public in... | |
 | John Frost - Death - 1887 - 270 pages
...administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that...indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero — to a notorious defaulter — or even to a common pickpocket." This is strong language. That it... | |
 | 1895 - 970 pages
...Washington, sickened of public life by attacks which, as he said, were "in terms so exaggerated and indecent as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket," had retired to private life, refusing a third term of the Presidency, the first national election that... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1887 - 300 pages
...Administration should be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, — and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket. "But enough of this ! I have already gone... | |
 | Daniel Dorchester - Christianity - 1888 - 854 pages
...subject to the influence of a foreign country ; and, to prove that, every act of my administration is tortured and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations...indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, or a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." It was a dark period in our national history.... | |
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