 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1897 - 340 strani
...being a trust too great for my capacity, and 84 that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose. You might and I suppose did, perceive from the tenor of my... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 strani
...its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. ... I shall feel no pain from the toil or danger of the campaign ; my unhappiness will flow from the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 strani
...of its being a trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me,... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1898 - 364 strani
...account. Washington wrote to his wife, at Mount Vernon : " 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 seven times seven years." But as he always did his duty promptly and cheerfully, he immediately set... | |
 | Geraldine Brooks - 1900 - 324 strani
...its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect...abroad if my stay were to be seven times seven years. I shall feel no pain from the toil and danger of the campaign ; my unhappiness will flow from the uneasiness... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - 1901 - 544 strani
...its being a trust too great for my capacity; and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." Profoundly moved by the modest address of the newly elected commander, Congress at once appointed Richard... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 560 strani
...being a trust too great for my capacity., and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 strani
...of a truly disinterested man is the earnest remark in a letter to his wife, written about this time: "As it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking of it is designed to answer some good purpose." It may be well to quote here the testimony of one of... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1919 - 650 strani
...its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect...hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer 5 some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1921 - 618 strani
...being a trust too great for my capac15 ity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer '20 some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I... | |
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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... 
