 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 744 trang
...resolution I was duped into by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a. tool for forwarding his schemes, and, of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret." The allusion here was to Jefferson's agency in bringing about the log-rolling compromise, by which... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 716 trang
...and as little as possible with the co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution I was duped into by the...Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, and, of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret." The allusion... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 718 trang
...and as little as possible with the co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution I was duped into by the...Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, and, of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret." The allusion... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 trang
...and as little as possible with my co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution, I was duped into by...political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret.1 It has ever been my purpose to explain this to you, when, from being actors on the scene,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 trang
...and as little as possible with my co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution, I was duped into by...political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret. * * * If it has been supposed that I have ever intrigued among the members of the legislature to defeat... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 trang
...possible with my co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of rny resolution, I was duped into by the Secretary of the...by me ; and of all the errors of my political life, tlus has occasioned me the deepest regret." * * * * " If it has been supposed that I have ever intrigued... | |
 | John Hall - 1859 - 490 trang
...to hold the candle" in this game, (Ana., Works, vol. Iz. p. 92 ;) and again, " I was duped into it by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret." (Letter quoted... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 trang
...his country. ' I was duped,' so he expressed himself two years after, in a letter to the President, ' by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a tool...life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret.'* But at the time of the bill's passing, his jealousy was as yet unaroused, and he was entirely given... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 trang
...and as little as possible with my co-departments. The first and only instance of variance from the former part of my resolution, I was duped into by...life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret." . . . " If it has been supposed that I have ever intrigued among the members of the legislature to... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 trang
...intentions. Might not fiscal schemes be directed to obtain political influence 1 Had he not been duped by the Secretary of the Treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his ambitious views? Was Hamilton really a republican, and might not the liberties of the country be in... | |
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I was duped into by the secretary of the treasury, and made a tool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me ; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned me the deepest regret. 
