 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1830 - 592 pages
...and here therefore I should choose to be employed.' p. 115. Again to Richard Henry Lee ; ' Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and...men will probably be the instruments of having me called to an account one day for their misdeeds. There is but one way of redressing this and remedying... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1839 - 590 pages
...115. Again, to Richard Henry Lee. 'Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and our situation is more painful. I see in every department...here, I am responsible for what I cannot prevent; those very men will probably be the instruments of having me called to an account one day for their... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 596 pages
...115. Again, to Richard Henry Lee. 'Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and our situation is more painful. I see in every department...here, I am responsible for what I cannot prevent; those very men will probably be the instruments of having me called to an account one day for their... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1840 - 592 pages
...115. Again, to Richard Henry Lee. 'Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and our situation is more painful. I see in every department...dissipation, and private schemes. Being in trust here, 1 am responsible for what I cannot prevent; those very men will probably be the instruments of having... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...business, which it has been impossible for me to prevent or correct." January 9th, to his brother : " Things are going on worse and worse every day among...department, neglect, dissipation, and private schemes. * * There is but one way of redressing this and remedying the public evil ; that is the plan I before... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1889 - 708 pages
...I should choose to be employed.' (p. 11"). ) Again, to Richard Henry Liee: 'Things go on worse ami worse every day among ourselves, and my situation is more painful. I see iu every department neglect, dissipation, and private scheme's. Being in trust here, I am responsible... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Finance - 1892 - 338 pages
...that Beaumarchais was bound by the State scale.2 Arthur Lee wrote to his brother, January 9, 1778: " Things are going on worse and worse every day among...every department neglect, dissipation, and private schemes."3 The day before that, Deane had written: " Mr. AL must be shaved and bled, or he will be... | |
 | Charles Henry Lee - 1894 - 86 pages
...your side of the water in the least more explicit."' At another time he writes to Richard Henry Lee: " Things are going on worse and worse every day among...neglect, dissipation, and private schemes. Being in trust where I am responsible for what I cannot prevent, these very men will probably be the instruments for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1907 - 686 pages
...court was most respectable and quiet ! He wrote to his brother: "Things go on worse and worse ever}' day among ourselves and my situation is more painful....men will probably be the instruments of having me called to account one day for their misdeeds. There is but one way of redressing this and remedying... | |
 | George Larkin Clark - History - 1913 - 324 pages
...center of political activity, and here therefore I choose to be employed. Again to RH Lee: Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and...men will probably be the instruments of having me called to an account for their misdeeds. There is but one way of redressing this, and remedying the... | |
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Things go on worse and worse every day among ourselves, and my situation is more painful. I see in every department neglect, dissipation, and private schemes. Being in trust here I am responsible for what I cannot prevent... 
