 A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications, will teach me to look with reverence to the examples of public virtue left by my illustrious predecessors, and with veneration to the lights that flow from the mind that founded, and the mind that...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 1641829Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1828 - 264 pages
...depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. A diffidence, perhaps too just,...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1829 - 442 pages
...depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. A diffidence, perhaps too just,...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
 | Citizen of the United States - United States - 1829 - 504 pages
...depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity of the public officers, than on their numbers. A diffidence, perhaps too just,...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - United States - 1830 - 472 pages
...support. In his inaugural, the president informs the people, " that he shall look to the examples of his illustrious predecessors, and with veneration to the...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed our system," referring to Washington and Jefferson. The example of the former was unfortunate for the... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - United States - 1830 - 458 pages
...support. In his inaugural, the president informs the people, " that he shall look to the examples of his illustrious predecessors, and with veneration to the...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed our system," referring to Washington and Jefferson. The example of the former was unfortunate for the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Cherokee Indians - 1830 - 326 pages
...said to his country, that a diffidence, perhaps too just, in his own qualifications, would teach him to look with reverence to the examples of public virtue left by his illustrious predecessors. Mr. Jefferson's opinion to general Knox in 1791, speaks a language that... | |
 | Philo Ashley Goodwin - Generals - 1832 - 448 pages
...depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. " A diffidence, perhaps too...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - United States - 1834 - 798 pages
...depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. . "A diffidence, perhaps too...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffidence induces me -to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - United States - 1835 - 292 pages
...integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. A diffidence, perhaps too just, in iry own qualifications will teach me to look with reverence...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co,ordinate branches... | |
 | Andrew Jackson - 1837 - 448 pages
...peration—depending, for the advancement of the public service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers, than on their numbers. , A diffidence, perhaps too...the mind that founded, and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffidence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the co-ordinate branches... | |
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