 | Robert Templeman Craighill - History - 1880 - 370 pages
...administration whilst in office. The assembly wish, in the strongest manner, to declare the high opinion which they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude and integrity, as chief magistrate of the commonwealth ; and mean, by thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and to remove all unmerited... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...they entertained of ' Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude, and integrity ; ' and that they meant, ' by thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and to remove all unmerited censure.' In November 1782 Jefferson accepted the post of ministerplenipotentiary for negotiating peace; but... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...administration whilst in office. The Assembly wish, in the strongest manner, to declare the high opinion which they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and remove all unmerited censure." This is an entertainingly worded resolution, and while asserting great... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 802 pages
...administration whilst in office. The assembly wish in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and remove all unmerited censure." On the last day of September, 1776, Mr. Jefferson was appointed, in... | |
 | 1894 - 844 pages
...administration whilst in office. The assembly wish in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and remove all unmerited censure." On the last day of September, 1776, Mr. Jefferson was appointed, in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 830 pages
...the thanks of the general assembly for his administration, and expressing the desire of that body in thus publicly avowing their opinion ' to obviate and to remove all unmerited censure. ' In the autumn of 1782, while grieving over the death of his wife, J. was unanimously elected by the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903 - 542 pages
...Assembly wish in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion they entertain of Mr. Jefferson•s ability, rectitude, and integrity as Chief Magistrate...opinion, to obviate and to remove all unmerited censure. • • And here it is but proper to notice the parody of these transactions which General Lee has... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1918 - 346 pages
...administration whilst in office. The Assembly wish, in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion which they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...thus publicly avowing their opinion to obviate and remove all unmerited censure." The commendation bestowed by Washington on Jefferson's administration... | |
 | Paul Wilstach - Monticello (Va.) - 1925 - 334 pages
...administration while in office. The Assembly wish, in the strongest manner, to declare the high opinion which they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and remove all unmerited censure." Thereupon Jefferson resigned and returned to Monticello, as he believed,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...administration whilst in office. The Assembly wish in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude,...opinion, to obviate and to remove all unmerited censure.' a After Yorktown: America as I hope to see it Young as we are, and with such a country before us to... | |
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Assembly wish in the strongest manner to declare the high opinion they entertain of Mr. Jefferson's ability, rectitude, and integrity as Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth, and mean, by thus publicly avowing their opinion, to obviate and to remove... 
