I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred not for my personal benefit, nor for my aggrandizement, but for my country's good, to check her onward march to greatness and glory. I have not courage enough, I am too cowardly... Niles' National Register - Sida 91841Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 sidor
...my country. That I can not, I have not the courage to do. I can not interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred, not for my personal...have not courage enough. I am too cowardly for that. courage widely different from that which a man may display in his private conduct and personal relations.... | |
| Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 sidor
...country. That I can not, I have not the courage to do. I can not interpose the power with which I may bo invested — a power conferred, not for my personal...greatness and glory. I have not courage enough — I ain too cowardly, for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down, and... | |
| David Philip Lindsley - 1890 - 140 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested — a power conferred not for my personal...have not courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. — Henry Clay. — 180 words. 106 eabing feere-ise. 9, CHAPTER X. PHRASE WRITING AND VARIABLE LETTERS.... | |
| P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. 1 cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested — a power conferred, not for my...courage enough. I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down, and place my body across the path that leads... | |
| Henry Clay - 1897 - 552 sidor
...my country. That I can not, 1 have not the courage to do. 1 can not interpose the power with which ] may be invested, a power conferred, not for my personal...have not courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. 1 would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down, and place my body across the path... | |
| Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 sidor
...country. That, I cannot,— I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested — a power conferred, not for my...courage enough. I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a threat, lie down, and plao« my body across the path that leads... | |
| 1900 - 460 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred not for my personal...courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down and place my body across -the path that leads... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 440 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred not for my personal...courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down and place my body across the path that leads... | |
| Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1902 - 432 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred not for my personal...courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down and place my body across the path that leads... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 458 sidor
...my country. That I cannot, I have not the courage to do. I cannot interpose the power with which I may be invested, a power conferred not for my personal...courage enough, I am too cowardly for that. I would not, I dare not, in the exercise of such a trust, lie down and place my body across the path that leads... | |
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