 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Political Science - 1941 - 904 pages
...defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. — Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate...cease to view them with indulgence; and that after forty five years of my life dedicated to its Service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...forty five years of my life devoted with an upright zeal to the public service the faults of inadequate abilities will be consigned to oblivion as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. Neither Ambition nor interest has been the impelling cause of my actions. I never designedly misused... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...I may have committed many errors." He hoped that "my country will never cease to view" his mistakes "with indulgence, and that, after forty-five years...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest." The forty-five years was an exaggeration, but no thoughtful person could deny him in retirement "the... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate...oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.80 Qtorgt 'Washington Of note are other passages from Washington's Farewell Speech, September... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...he had "committed many errors" in the course of his presidency. "Whatever they may be," he noted, "I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend." Washington asked for the nation's indulgence and hoped that "the faults of incompetent abilities" would... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1999 - 374 pages
...my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate...will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon bo to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, "and actuated by that... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate...upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities wiHT>e consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions oi*resfc. Belying on its kindness... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may he, I fervently heseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which...upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will he consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon he to the mansions of rest. Relying on its kindness in... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend." Another thought encountered in farewell messages is justification for offering the message. It can... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate [the evils to which they may tend.] || — l shall aiso carry with me the hope that my country will never...consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansion of rest, [f] (* and from men disagreeing m their impressions of the origin, progress, and nature... | |
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