 ... to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident,...  The Works of Alexander Hamiltonτων Alexander Hamilton - 1904Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
 | 1835 - 436 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes m« from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - 512 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air; my folly makes me... | |
 | 1856 - 542 σελίδες
...Sacramento. — [•'•••'• •'"'i>•>• confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the nir ; my folly makes me... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 526 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air; my folly makes VOL.... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 σελίδες
...desire it ; but 1 Soo those resolutions in txtenn, in Force's Am. Archives, 4th series, vol, i., p. 312. I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I 'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air. My folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ;... | |
 | 1857 - 610 σελίδες
...life, thongh not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any $ Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies daring the few... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 610 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1857 - 612 σελίδες
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
 | 1857 - 668 σελίδες
...life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies during the few... | |
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