 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 594 σελίδες
...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. 3 His commission was in the following words :... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 464 σελίδες
...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...But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking designed to answer some good purpose. You might,... | |
 | 1852 - 776 σελίδες
...marked. " Far from seeking this appointment," he remarked, " I have used every endeavour to avoid it. . . But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service . . I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." He declined,... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 460 σελίδες
...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 rinding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 σελίδες
...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...undertaking it is " designed to answer some good purpose, .... and I " shall rely therefore confidently on that Providence which " has heretofore preserved and... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 σελίδες
...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...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose, .... and I shall rely therefore confidentlybn that Providence which has heretofore preserved and been... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1853 - 638 σελίδες
...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...it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me \ipon tliis service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1854 - 262 σελίδες
...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 destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, 1 shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 σελίδες
...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 fmding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - 566 σελίδες
...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...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. * * * * " I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has heretofore preserved, and been bountiful... | |
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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... 
