 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...  The Ladies of the White House - Sayfa 19Laura Carter Holloway tarafından - 1870 - 658 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | François Guizot - 1876 - 568 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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. 12. "But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 sayfa
...should enjoy more real happiness in one mouth with yon at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. * * * * " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved, and been bountiful... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...appointment, from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, but, as a kind of destiny has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has hitherto preserved and been bountiful to me."... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 sayfa
...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. I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid this appointment, from a consciousness of its being... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 sayfa
...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. I have used every endeavor in my power to avoid this appointment, from a consciousness of its being... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 sayfa
...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...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 sayfa
...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...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.... | |
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