 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 668 strani
...employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." * Page 232. FIRST TEAR OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. 239 fourteen thousand strong... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 strani
...employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge ; and that is all I desire.'' He did keep his account strictly ; and that was all he received. From the day,... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 strani
...arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit of it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." Washington was now forty-three years of age, tall and handsome, majestic in... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 504 strani
...arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit of it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." Washington was now forty-three years of age, tall and handsome, majestic in... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 strani
...myself equal to the .command I am honored with." Refusing any pay, he continued, " I will keep an 1775. exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." Congress resolved " to maintain and assist, and adhere to him with their lives... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 strani
...employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge. That is all I desire." To his wife, who was ever the object of his most respectful regard and tender... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1867 - 834 strani
...equal to the command I am honored __! '. with." Eefusing any pay, he continued, " I will keep an 17*75. exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they, will discharge, and that is all I desire/' Congress resolved " to maintain and assist, and adhere to him with their lives... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - 1868 - 438 strani
...employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." WASHINGTON'S RESIGNATION OF HIS COMMISSION. The War of the Revolution having... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1868 - 890 strani
...myself equal to the command I am honored with." Kefusing any pay, he continued, " I will keep an 1775. exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire." Congress resolved " to maintain and assist, and adhere to him with their lives... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 652 strani
...arduous employment, at the expense o my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit of it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I douot not, they wll discharge, and that is all! desire." 7 .'There is something charming to me in the... | |
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As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an... 
