 | Theodore Parker - 1871 - 256 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 страници
...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 страници
...family, but from a 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...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 страници
...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 - 798 страници
...family, but from a 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...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 страници
...family, but from a 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,...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... | |
 | John Waddington - 1876 - 754 страници
...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...undertaking it 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... | |
 | François Guizot - 1876 - 568 страници
...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 страници
...trust too great for my capacity ; and I 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... | |
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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... 
