| François Guizot - 1876 - 568 strani
...an effort the decision of the Congress. " As it has been a kind of destiny," he wrote to his wife, "that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.'* In his letter to Congress on receiving the appointment he says : " Though I am truly sensible of the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1876 - 766 strani
...trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you ¡it home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad if my stay were to be seven times seven vears. Hut as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me u | »on this service, I shall hope... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 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. 12. "But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my... | |
| Laura Carter Holloway - 1881 - 800 strani
...should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospects of finding abroad if my stay were to be seven times...and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letter, that I was apprehensive I could not avoid this appointment, as I did not pretend to intimate... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 strani
...being a trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one mouth with yon at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. * * * * " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved, and been bountiful... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 586 strani
...trust too great for my capacity ; and I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at homo than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose "I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has hitherfore preserved, and been bountiful to... | |
| Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 strani
...utterly out of his power to refuse the appointment, although he had used every endeavor to avoid it. " But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." The congress, upon the acceptance by Washington of his appointment, resolved that it was necessary... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 480 strani
...wrote on the eighteenth of June: " You may believe me, 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 have used every endeavor in my power to avoid this appointment, from a consciousness of its being... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 strani
...wrote on the eighteenth of June : " You may believe me, 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 have used every endeavor in my power to avoid this appointment, from a consciousness of its being... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 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...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... | |
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