 | Charles Henshaw Ward - 1920 - 584 strani
...its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that / 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 It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such censures... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 520 strani
...being a trust too great for my capac18 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 was... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - 1921 - 490 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... | |
 | Albert Henry Heusser - 1921 - 312 strani
...Mistress Martha, he says with unaffected simplicity "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 uneasiness... | |
 | James Hosmer Penniman - 1921 - 84 strani
...could return to his beloved home. He wrote his wife: "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." When it became probable that he would be chosen first President of the United States, he wrote John... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 strani
...seeking this appointment, I have used every endeavor to avoid it. I should enjoy more real happiness with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." By June twenty-first Washington and his escort of troops were on the road to Boston. Long afterward... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 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...to be seven times seven years. But as it has been kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 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...to be seven times seven years. But as it has been kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed... | |
 | Sidney Coe Howard - 1925 - 98 strani
...this day declare with utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. But, as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. [He accepts the sword. A great sigh comes like a hope from all around. A roll of snare drums far away... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1925 - 460 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 of finding abroad, if my a 5 o SU I? s » » E 9 § *•& S 2 3 bo §1 stay were to be seven times seven years. ... I shall... | |
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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... 
