 GENTLEMEN : In every act of my administration I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal, local, and partial considerations ; to contemplate the United States...  George Washington - Seite 118von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Washington - 1848 - 746 Seiten
...SCOLLAY, AND JESSE PUTNAM, SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON. GENTLEMEN, United States, 28 July, 1795. In every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal,... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 592 Seiten
...SCOLLAY, AHD JESSE PUTJSTAM, SELECTMEN OF THE TOW1ST OF BOSTON. GENTLEMEN, United States, 28 July, 1795. In every act of my administration, I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 410 Seiten
...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty: “In every act of my administration,” said he, “I have sought the happiness of my fellowcitizens....one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and * Writings, xi., 40. to consult only the substantial... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 492 Seiten
...Boston was couched in different ^^ terms. " In every act of my administration," said he, " I have 179.5. sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens. My system...one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult chiefly the substantial and permanent... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 488 Seiten
...was couched in different • terms. " In every act of my administration," said he, " I have 179.5. sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens. My system...one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult chiefly the substantial and permanent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 Seiten
...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty : " In every act of my administration," said he. " I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....one great whole; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult only the substantial and permanent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 Seiten
...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty : " In every act of my administration/' said he, " I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....great whole ; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection ; and to consult only the substantial and permanent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 Seiten
...principles which influenced him in regard to the treaty : In every act of my administration," said he, " I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....great whole ; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection ; and to consult only the substantial and permanent... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1879 - 716 Seiten
...and on the twenty-eighth of July he addressed the following letter to the selectmen of Boston :—* " In every act of my administration I have sought the...contemplate the United States as one great whole ; to consider that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection ; and to consult... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1871 - 64 Seiten
...a pattern of modest yet dignified independence. " In every act of my administration," he writes, " I have sought the happiness of my fellow-citizens....great whole ; to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection; and to consult only the substantial and permanent... | |
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