 I shall be present or not, for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt...  Essays, Historical, and Literary - Stran 105avtor: John Fiske - 1902Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 strani
...for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns...confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm... | |
 | 1835 - 436 strani
...for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that i contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns...station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes m« from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - 512 strani
...for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns...confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm... | |
 | 1856 - 542 strani
...his character. He wrote the letter to a companion, Edward Stevens, an extract from which we give : "To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent,...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, but not my character, to exalt my station. I am * Our old correspondent, the author of the " Flush... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 strani
...he wrote as follows to a young friend at school : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...life, though not my character, to exalt my station : I mean, to prepare the way for futurity." Herein gleams the true fire of a noble youth, love of fame... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 514 strani
...for, to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns...confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do. I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 526 strani
...for, to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns...confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 strani
...said, with amusing artlessness, ' My ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns...confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but 1 Soo those resolutions in txtenn, in Force's... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 554 strani
...grovelling condition of a clerk to which my fortune condemns me," writes he to a youthful friend, " and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. * * * I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I am no philosopher, and may be justly said to build castles... | |
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