 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1880 - 524 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." Again, at the conclusion of his inaugural address, on his accession to the Presidency,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 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, »nd that is all I desire." " There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 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.' ' 28. This appointment was made two days before the battle of Bunker Hill. There... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 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.' There are points in the annals of nations, when a writer of even so brief an... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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 soon discharge, and that is all I desire.' Before the new general left Philadelphia to join the army... | |
 | George Washington - 1887 - 122 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. II. TO MRS. MARTHA WASHINGTON. MY DEAREST : I am now set down to write to you... | |
 | George Washington - 1775 - 98 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." As soon as he could get himself in readiness he set out for Boston to take upon... | |
 | 1887 - 220 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. This is all I desire." 14. Early in July Washington arrived at Cambridge, to take command of the army... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1887 - 328 strani
...happiness, I do not wish to make any profit of it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. These, I doubt not, they will discharge, and this is all I desire." Adams, in £ letter written at the moment, praises highly the conduct of Washington, "a gentleman of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 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. THE SOLDIER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE. [Letter to Mrs. Martha Washington.—Philadelphia,... | |
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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... 
