 I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall...  Life of George Washington - Stran 427avtor: Washington Irving - 1900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 strani
...most distant prospect of finding abroad if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment without exposing my character to such censures... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 538 strani
...power to refuse tbe appointment, although he had used every endeavour to avoid it. " But as it iias been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope ttat my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." rhe Congress, upon the acceptance... | |
 | 1875 - 712 strani
...most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and friends,... | |
 | 1875 - 398 strani
...his wife he wrote : " I hope my undertaking this service is designed to answer some good purpose. I rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." On the 2ist of June, and when Washington had just left Philadelphia for Cambridge, Thomas Jefferson... | |
 | John Waddington - 1876 - 754 strani
...most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could not... | |
 | François Guizot - 1876 - 568 strani
...an effort the decision of the Congress. " As it has been a kind of destiny," he wrote to his wife, "that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.'* In his letter to Congress on receiving the appointment he says : " Though I am truly sensible of the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 strani
...most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But, as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this...service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed for some good purpose. It was utterly out of my power to refuse the appointment, without exposing my... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1876 - 766 strani
...were to be seven times seven vears. Hut as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me u | »on this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose " On the 20th of June he received his commission from tin; president of Congress. The following day... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 660 strani
...unbosomed his inmost mind: " I hope my undertaking this service is designed to answer some good purpose. I rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." His acceptance changed the aspect of affairs. John Adams, looking with complacency upon "the modest... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 strani
...distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. 12. "But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
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