D*V 发帖数: 3096 | 1 Washington's Farewell Address 1796
Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of
intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to
think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may
be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which
they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will
never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty five years
of my life dedicated to its
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service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be
consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest. |
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