 ... 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
 | United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...been doiug his utmost to administer the government upon impartial principles, he had been assailed in "such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely...notorious defaulter or even to a common pickpocket. " Naturally enough iu a period such as this DeWitt Clinton was a sjxîcial target for the shots of... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Political parties - 1895 - 226 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... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1897 - 384 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...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." — Washington to Thomas Jefferson. MONDAY, JULY 18. At Mount Vernon : " I hope and expect, that the... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1897 - 628 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...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." — Washington to Thomas Jefferson. MONDAY, JULY 18. At Mount Vernon : " I hope and expect, that the... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1897 - 632 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...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." — Washington to Thomas Jefferson. MONDAY, JULY 18. At Mount Vernon : " I hope and expect, that the... | |
 | World history - 1897 - 600 pages
...the abuse which he had been subjected to, calling himself "no party man," and saying of this abuse "and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." In the midst of these hostile attacks upon him by the Republican party, Washington issued his immortal... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 722 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 and... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 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 and... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 540 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 and... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 428 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...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." — Washington to Thomas Jefferson. MONDAY, JULY 18. At Mount Vernon : " I hope and expect, that the... | |
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