| William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 strani
...trust too great for my capacity and that I should enjoy more real happiness and felicity, in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of reaping abroad, if my stay were to be Seven times Seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny... | |
| William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 358 strani
...trust too great for my capacity and that I should enjoy more real happiness and felicity, in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of reaping abroad, if my stay were to be Seven times Seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny... | |
| George Washington - 1894 - 510 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...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. June, 1775. I shall rely, confidently, on that Providence, which has heretofore preserved and been... | |
| Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 268 strani
...trust too great for my capability, and that I would enjoy more real happiness and felicity 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." 1778 General Washington, learning early in the morning that Sir Henry Clinton had evacuated Philadelphia,... | |
| Brooks, Elbridge S. - 1895 - 216 strani
...when he accepted the command. "It is a trust too great for my capacity," he wrote to his wife; " but it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon it, and it was utterly out of my power to refuse it." Did you ever make a promise that you felt was... | |
| 1895 - 224 strani
...when he accepted the command. "It is a trust too great for my capacity," he wrote to his wife; " but it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon it, and it was utterly out of my power to refuse it." Did you ever make a promise that you felt was... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 strani
...you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity. . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. ... It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 strani
...you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity. . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. ... It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such... | |
| George Bancroft - 1896 - 486 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... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 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... | |
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