 | John Watson Foster - United States - 1900 - 548 pages
...him ; and defied any man on earthdj^^ptrtTuce one single act of his since he had been in^l^^overnment which was not done on the purest motives; that he...his office, and that was every moment since; that by G — ! he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation ; that he had rather be on his... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 798 pages
...government which was not done from the purest motives. He declared that he had never repented but once of having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment sirce. "By God!" he exclaimed, using the familiar oath of the period, "I would rather be in my grave... | |
 | Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - 1903 - 496 pages
...Jefferson, "he got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself. He had never repented but once having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since; and by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation. He had rather be on his farm... | |
 | Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York - New York (State) - 1903 - 348 pages
...the government which had not been done on the purest motives. He said he had never repented but once having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since. In the agony of his heart, he declared, he would rather be in his grave than in his present situation,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...bestowed on him, defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the govmt which was not done on the purest motives, that he...having slipped the moment of resigning his office, & that was every moment since, that by god he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation.... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 pages
...The attacks embittered the close of his term of service; he declared, in a cabinet-meeting in 1793, that " he had never repented but once the having slipped...resigning his office, and that was every moment since." Indeed, the most unpleasant portions of Jefferson's Ana are those in which, with an air of psychological... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1905 - 238 pages
...personal abuse which had been bestowed upon him, defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government which was...slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was even.- moment since, that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation. That... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1905 - 644 pages
...into print. Jefferson tells us that one day at a cabinet meeting the President vehemently declared "that he had never repented but once the having slipped...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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1905 - 680 pages
...into print. Jefferson tells us that one day at a cabinet meeting the President vehemently declared "that he had never repented but once the having slipped...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... | |
 | Owen Wister - Presidents - 1907 - 314 pages
...personal abuse which had been bestowed on him, defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government which was...office, and that was every moment since, that by God he would Seven rather be in his grave than in his present ***., situation. That he had rather be on his... | |
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The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran on much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed on him ; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government... 
