 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
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 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...that my undertaking it is designed to answer some pood purpose "I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has hitherfore preserved, and been... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 632 strani
...not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.". But, in writing to his wife, he said, " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which...has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." General Burnside had as sincere a humility and as profound a trust. He has never rated himself at as... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 632 strani
...do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with." But, in writing to his wife, he said, " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which...has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." General Burnside had as sincere a humility and as profound a trust. He has never rated himself at as... | |
 | Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 626 strani
...not think myself equal to the command I am honored .with." But, in writing to his wife, he said, " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which,...has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." General Burnside had as sincere a humility and as profound a trust. He has never rated himself at as... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 570 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...shall rely confidently on that Providence •which has hitherfore preserved, and been bountiful to me, not doubting but that I shall return safe to you in... | |
 | George Washington - 1871 - 240 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, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 362 strani
...office, and enclosing his will, just made. "As it has been a kind of destiny," says the modest man, "that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose." He left Mount Veruou in May, 1775. He did not enter his own... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 602 strani
...office, and enclosing his will, just made. ' As it has been a kind of destiny, ' says the modest man, * that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose.' Ho left Mount Vernon in May, 1775. He did not enter his own... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 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...on that Providence which has heretofore preserved r and been bountifuLto me, not doubting but that I shall return safe to you in the fall. I shall feel... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 strani
...Historical Collections, ii. 204. Washington, in a letter to his wife, on hia appointment, said: "It has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service " ; to his brother Augustine: " I have been called upon, by the unanimous voice of the colonies, to... | |
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