| 1888 - 1022 páginas
...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,... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1889 - 286 páginas
...consciousness of 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...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
| George Washington - 1889 - 530 páginas
...consciousness of 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...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... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1890 - 520 páginas
...consciousness of 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...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I wa» apprehensive I could... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1890 - 542 páginas
...great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than [ have the most distant prospect of finding abroad,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did, perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
| 1890 - 724 páginas
...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 páginas
...consciousness 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...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Sidney Coe Howard - 1925 - 98 páginas
...this day declare with utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. But, as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. [He accepts the sword. A great sigh comes like a hope from all around. A roll of snare drums far away... | |
| John Thomson Faris - 1925 - 460 páginas
...consciousness of 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 of finding abroad, if my a 5 o SU I? s » » E 9 § *•& S 2 3 bo §1 stay were to be seven times seven years. ... I shall... | |
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