 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 718 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 kingl '' In his celebrated farewell address of September 17, 1796 (composed in part by Hamilton, but... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 276 pages
...on his farm than to be made emperor of the world; and that they were charging him with wanting to be king; that that rascal Freneau sent him three of his...distributor of his papers; that he could see in this nothing but an impudent design to insult him. " Freneau was one of Jefferson's subordinates in the... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - United States - 1918 - 264 pages
...on his farm than to be made emperor of the world; and that they were charging him with wanting to be king; that that rascal Freneau sent him three of his...distributor of his papers; that he could see in this nothing but an impudent design to insult him. " Freneau was one of Jefferson's subordinates in the... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1905 - 234 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation. That he had rather be oh his farm than to 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. He ended in this high tone." Jefferson had noticed that... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 404 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." At the cabinet meeting of April 19 there had been a sharp difference of opinion as to the way in which... | |
 | Clarence Day - 1921 - 242 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...become the distributor of his papers; that he could see nothing in this but an impudent design to insult him," etc., etc. Poor, stung human being; with all... | |
 | Social sciences - 1922 - 612 pages
...that Washington is said finally to have exclaimed " 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."104 The imprudent behavior of the minister Genet, in appealing from the President to the people,... | |
 | Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...Wn," in which the President was placed on a guillotine. On seeing it Washington exclaimed in a rage that "that rascal Freneau sent him three of his papers...as if he thought he would become the distributor." consequence many of these liberals came to the United States. French citizens, too, were numerous in... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 664 pages
...his office and that was every moment since, that by God he would rather be on his farm than be made Emperor of the World, and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be king.' The cries 'Long live Great Washington' with which he used to be met in the streets were now... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 670 pages
...his office and that was every moment since, that by God he would rather be on his farm than be made Emperor of the World, and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be king.' The cries 'Long live Great Washington' with which he used to be met in the streets were now... | |
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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... 
