 | Theodore Dwight - 1839 - 384 pagine
...will not suffer my retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man whose history, from the moment history can stoop to notice him, is a tissue of machinations...country which has not only received and given him brea'l, but heaped its honors on his head." There are some things in this letter that are worthy of... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 664 pagine
...devotion to the rights and liberty of his countrymen," he declared, that " he would not suffer his retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man,...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head." This of the man whom subsequently, he designated, as " one of the great of the World." " As he had... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 804 pagine
...for the esteem of my countrymen ; and conscious of having merited it by an integrity which can not be reproached, and by an enthusiastic devotion to...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head."* The spirit of Jefferson's letter afforded Washington no hope for reconciliation between the secretaries.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pagine
...justification or the interests of the Eepublic require it, subscribing his name to whatever he might write, and using with freedom and truth the facts...country which has not only received and given him bread, bub heaped its honors on his head." Washington's solicitude for harmony in his cabinet had been rendered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 pagine
...merited it by an integrity which cannot be reproached, and by an enthuSolicitude for fbarmom? zo7 siastic devotion to their rights and liberty, I will not suffer...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head." Washington's solicitude for harmony in his cabinet had been rendered more anxious by public disturbances... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 632 pagine
...devotion to the rights and liberty of his countrymen," he declared, that " he would not suffer his retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man,...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head." This of the man whom subsequently, he designated, as " one of the great of the World." " As he had... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 630 pagine
...devotion to the rights and liberty of his countrymen," he declared, that " he would not suffer his retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man,...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head." This of the man whom subsequently, he designated, as " one of the great of the World." " As he had... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pagine
...which he hopes will not be necessary." And he concludes by declaring that he " will not suffer his retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man...only received and given him bread, but heaped its honours on his head."—Hamilton, on the contrary, frankly avows that he has been driven into retaliation... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 pagine
...which he hopes will not be necessary." And he concludes by declaring that he " will not suffer his retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man...only received and given him bread, but heaped its honours on his head." — Hamilton, on the contrary, frankly avows that he has been driven into retaliation... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 466 pagine
...justification or the interests of the Eepublic require it, subscribing his name to whatever he might write, aud using with freedom and truth the facts and names necessary...given him bread, but heaped its honors on his head." Washington's solicitude for harmony in his cabinet had been rendered more anxious by public disturbances... | |
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I will not suffer my retirement to be clouded by the slanders of a man, whose history, from the moment at which history can stoop to notice him, is a tissue of machinations against the liberty of the country which has not only received and given him bread,... 
