 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 680 pages
...his office, and that was every moment since, that ... he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world, and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king ! " ORGANIZATION AND EXPANSION be in danger if the United States took sides with either party in the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 pages
...his office, and that was every moment since, that ... he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world, and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king ! " In his celebrated farewell address of September 17, 1796 (composed in part by Hamilton, but full... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 480 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world ; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king." 1 For the 1nfluence and importance of the Democratic societies under Washington, see Early Political... | |
 | Will Carleton - 1907 - 748 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation: that he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be King." So Washington retired to his farm where he would rather be than be "emperor of the world." John... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1910 - 558 pages
...Government, which was not done on the purest motives; that he had rather be on his farm than be made Emperor of the World; and yet that they were charging...distributor of his papers; that he could see in this, nothing but an impudent design to insult him." Genet's excesses gave the Federalists an opportunity... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made Emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging...rascal Freneau sent him three of his papers every day, a? if he thought he would become the distributor of his papers; that he could see in this, nothing... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 478 pages
...him with wanting to be a King. That that rascal Freneau sent him three of his papers every day, a? if he thought he would become the distributor of his papers; that he could see in this, nothing but an impudent design to insult him: he ended in this high tone. "Anas," Works of Thomas Jefferson,... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...to have come to the decision some time previously that he ought to THE CASE OF LE PETIT DEMOCRATS. were charging him with wanting to be a king. That that rascal Freneau sent him 3 of his papers every day, as if he thought he would become the distributor of his papers, that he... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 732 pages
...his office, and that was every moment since, that ... he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world, and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king!" In his celebrated farewell address of September 17, 1796 (composed in part by Hamilton, but full of... | |
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... that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since ; that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation ; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made... 
