 | Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 616 pages
...measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brough it forward. I know well the perils to which I expose...foes. Ambition! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 622 pages
...been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1843 - 226 pages
...been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1843 - 804 pages
...measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brough it forward. I know well the perils to which I expose...foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Henry Clay - Vandenhoff, George, 1820-1883 - 1844 - 168 pages
...been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Henry Clay - Campaign literature - 1844 - 88 pages
...been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If 1 had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; If I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - American essays - 1845 - 366 pages
...this measure. Ambition, inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should never have brought it forward. I know well the perils to which...of those whom we have long tried and loved, and the danger of honest misconception of both friends and foes. Ambition ! if I had listened to its soft and... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 514 pages
...been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...Ambition ! inordinate ambition! If l had thought of myself only. I should have never brought it forwarcl. I know well the perils to which I expose myself; the...whom we have long tried and loved; and the honest misconcpptions both of friends and foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers;... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had' thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward....foes. Ambition ! If I had listened to its soft and seducing whispers ; if I had yielded myself to the dictates of a cold, calculating, and prudential... | |
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I have been accused of ambition in presenting this measure. Ambition ! inordinate ambition ! If I had thought of myself only, I should have never brought it forward. I know well the perils to which I expose myself; the risk of alienating faithful and... 
