 | Jared Sparks - 1852 - 254 pages
...conviction, that, when you build on them the following formal judgment, you are striving to magnify a small thing into one of most unnatural dimensions....sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts." Is it your settled belief, that these four phrases were absolutely... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 68 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated 1 Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts." Is it your settled belief, that these four phrases were absolutely... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 68 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts." Is it your settled belief, that these four phrases were absolutely... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Manuscripts - 1852 - 60 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...great man? believe that in his own true form he is sufficient" ly exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts." Is it... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts ! Then, again, to what other motive besides " embellish"ment" are... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 418 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts ! Then, again, to what other motive besides " embellish"ment" are... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen who desire to set him upon stilts ! Then, again, to what other motive besides " embellish"ment" are... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1854 - 424 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...memory of that great man, believe that in his own LETTER TO JARED SPARKS, ESQ. 355 true form he is sufficiently exalted. It is only some of his countrymen... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 pages
...other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were...of character than Washington could use for himself? WTe in England, with the highest respect for the memory of that great man, believe that in his own... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Educators - 1869 - 120 pages
...history," for the purpose of " setting Washington on stilts," and in order to ascribe to him the "use of language more conformable to Washington's dignity...character than Washington could use for himself." Mr. Sparks had also " been desirous to strike out as far as possible every word or phrase that could... | |
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Of course you must be the best authority as to your own intentions. Yet; let me ask you, what other motive can by possibility be assigned for such corrections besides the one that I have stated ? Is it not quite clear in these cases, that you were seeking... 