 | John Marshall - 1804 - 562 pages
...a good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or advise thus fredy : a character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse." The present aspect of their affairs was extremely unfavourable to the United States. The existing army,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...of liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my apology." These weighty representations were not fruitless. Congress, by a resolution, invested their... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...of liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my apology." DEc. 27.] These weighty representations were not fruitless. Congress, by a resolution, invested... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...a good deal out of the. line of my duty to adopt these measures, or advise thus freely: a character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings of liberty at efake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse.'' Perhaps no human being ever embraced the cause of his... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. I have heard nothing of the light-horse from Virginia, nor of the regiment from the Eastern Shore.*... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. I have heard nothing of the light-horse from Virginia, nor of the regiment from the Eastern Shore.*... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse." This representation, and others of like import, had their due effect. Notwithstanding the extreme sensitiveness... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse." military ascendency, the present crisis was such, as to silence the opposition, if not to change the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse." military ascendency, the present crisis was such, as to silence the opposition, if not to change the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 588 pages
...good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings...liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. I have heard nothing of the light-horse from Virginia, nor of the regiment from the Eastern Shore.*... | |
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I am going a good deal out of the line of my duty, to adopt these measures, or to advise thus freely. A character to lose, an estate to forfeit, the inestimable blessings of liberty at stake, and a life devoted, must be my excuse. 
