Could I have foreseen what I have experienced and am likely to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. Life of George Washington - Stran 95avtor: Washington Irving - 1869Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 580 strani
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 578 strani
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 strani
...— but sometimes the rank he had accepted. — " Could I have foreseen what I have, and " am like to, experience, no consideration upon earth " should have induced me to accept this command. " A regiment, or any subordinate department, " would have been accompanied with ten times " the satisfaction... | |
| Thaddeus Allen - 1847 - 574 strani
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavoring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
| George Washington - 1847 - 588 strani
...establish, and run me into one evil whilst I am endeavouring to avoid another ; but the less must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have experienced, and...earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment OF any subordinate department would have • been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
| William Bradford Reed - 1847 - 466 strani
...endeavouring to avoid another; but the lesser must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have, and am like to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction... | |
| Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 strani
...and are mostly on furlough ; and such a mercenary spirit; pervades the whole, that I should not bo surprised at any disaster that may happen Could I...in this time of his troubles and perplexities than Ganeral Greene. He had a real veneration for his character, and thought himself " happy in an opportunity... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 strani
...— but sometimes the rank he had accepted. — " Could I have foreseen what I have, and " am like to, experience, no consideration upon earth " should have induced me to accept this command. " A regiment, or any subordinate department, " would have been accompanied with ten times " the satisfaction... | |
| George Washington - 1852 - 172 strani
...to avoid another ; but the lesser3* must be chosen. Could I have foreseen what I have,44 and am like to experience, no consideration upon earth should have induced me to accept this command. A regiment or any subordinate department would have been accompanied with ten times the satisfaction,... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 424 strani
...espoused — but sometimes the rank he had accepted. — " Could I have foreseen what I have, 'and am like to, experience, no consideration upon earth ' should have induced me to accept this command. A regi'ment, or any subordinate department, would have been ' accompanied with ten times the satisfaction... | |
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