 | 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...destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall WASHINGTON IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY. 133 hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1886 - 500 strani
...it 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...were to be seven times seven years. But as it has l>een a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886 - 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 strani
...consciousness of it being a trust too great for my ca. pacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." With but little delay, Congress appointed the other officers who were to serve under Washington, not... | |
 | 1888 - 748 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...But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown upon me this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it u designed to answer some good purpose. Cran... | |
 | 1888 - 1022 strani
...too great for my capacity, and that I would enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at homo than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." Washington's consciousness that this trust was too great for his capacity shows a oominoudable modesty,... | |
 | George Washington - 1889 - 530 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...to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a_kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed... | |
 | 1890 - 724 strani
...trust too great for my capacity, and :ha: I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you a: home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay was to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this... | |
 | 1892 - 780 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." To his favorite brother, John Augustine, he "I am now to bid you adieu, and to every kind of domestic... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1892 - 356 strani
...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....upon this Service, I shall hope that my undertaking of it is designed to answer some good purpose." — Washington to Mrs. Washington, June 18. " There... | |
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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... 
