 | 1871 - 784 strani
...consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity ; 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." Trusting in Providence, he hopes he may return safe to her in the succeeding Fall. He fears no dangers,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 256 strani
...office, and enclosing his will, just made. ' As it has been a kind of destiny/ says the modest man, ' that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose. ' He left Mount Vernon in May, 1775. He did not enter his... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 602 strani
...office, and enclosing his will, just made. ' As it has been a kind of destiny,' says the modest man, * that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose. ' Ho left Mount Vernon in May, 1775. He did not enter his... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 strani
...of its being a trust too great for my capacity; and I should enjQy 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 r and been bountifuLto... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 strani
...Connecticut Historical Collections, ii. 204. Washington, in a letter to his wife, on hia appointment, said: "It has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service " ; to his brother Augustine: " I have been called upon, by the unanimous voice of the colonies, to... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 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...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 censures... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 538 strani
...power to refuse tbe appointment, although he had used every endeavour to avoid it. " But as it iias been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope ttat my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." rhe Congress, upon the acceptance... | |
 | John Waddington - 1876 - 754 strani
...trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with yon at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding...is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could not avoid this... | |
 | John Waddington - 1876 - 798 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...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. Yon might, I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could not... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 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...service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed for some good purpose. It was utterly out of my power to refuse the appointment, without exposing my... | |
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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... 
