 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 Seiten
...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." Washington was at this time forty-three years of age. * His commission was in the following words :... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - 1860 - 670 Seiten
...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...finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven yenrs. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 Seiten
...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 rinding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." Washington was at this time forty-three... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 492 Seiten
...month with you at home than I have tho most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of lks that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my m& taking it is designed to answer some... | |
 | 1861 - 330 Seiten
...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...But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown upon me this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.... | |
 | Samuel Curwen - 1864 - 720 Seiten
...chief command of the army raised " for the defence of American liberty," in 1775, he writes thus : "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 it without exposing my character to such censures as would... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 392 Seiten
...Commander-in-chief of the American forces in 1775, wrote to his wife thus : " 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." Evidently he meant simply to be understood that it was a great sacrifice for him to yield the pleasures... | |
 | Laura Carter Holloway - 1870 - 704 Seiten
...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 - 1870 - 570 Seiten
...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...this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is desigued to answer some good purpose " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has hitherfore... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1871 - 650 Seiten
...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...destiny that has thrown me upon this 'service, I shall Lope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose " I shall rely confidently on that... | |
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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... 
