 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 552 páginas
...administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." t As Washington had declined to be renominated, the Federalists, after some consideration, united to... | |
 | Dumas Malone - 1962 - 606 páginas
...he would witness such gross misrepresentations of his administration. These were described, he said, "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." Jefferson must have been touched by these words, for no one was more aware than he of Washington's... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Bailey - 1981 - 344 páginas
...administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." Republics are indeed notoriously ungrateful. Washington probably could have had a third term, if he... | |
 | James Thomas Flexner - 1967 - 450 páginas
...embittered and puzzled hero complained that every act of his administration had been grossly misrepresented, "and that too in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even a common pickpocket." He was very sad. When Stuart had tried,... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 páginas
...administration would be tortured, and the grossest, and most insidious mis- tepresentations of them be made (by giving one side only of a subject, and that...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket)." Such, then, was the context in which Washington arranged his thoughts for his valedictory address.... | |
 | James Thomas Flexner - 1995 - 228 páginas
...against his will. He complained that every act of his administration had been grossly misrepresented, "and that too in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even a common pickpocket." He was very sad. When Stuart had tried,... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 páginas
...he would witness such gross misrepresentations of his administration. These were described, he said, "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely...notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." Jefferson must have been touched by these words, for no one was more aware than he of Washington's... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...could go, the length I have witness to." He could not believe his administration was being attacked in such "exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely...applied to a Nero; a notorious defaulter; or even a common pickpocket." While he said that he did not accuse Jefferson of being the source of the scurrilous... | |
 | Steven H. Jaffe - 1996 - 246 páginas
...him with wanting to be a king." Washington complained to Jefferson that the press was treating him "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or a common pickpocket." Exhausted and embittered by the party battles he could not quell, Washington... | |
 | Bruce Burgett - 1998 - 222 páginas
...newspapers like Benjamin Bache s Philadelphia Aurora and Philip Freneau s National Gazette portray him "in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely...notorious defaulter; or even to a common pickpocket,"" Washington's complaint is understandable, though its address to one of the men responsible for the... | |
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... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a... 
