 I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds a year would not induce me to undergo what I do; and after all, perhaps^ to lose my character, as it is impossible,...  Works of Washington Irving: Washington - Page 454by Washington Irving - 1870Full view - About this book
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 588 pages
...local attachments of this or that member of Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary...to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or even to the expectation of those, who employ me, as they will not make proper allowances for the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 568 pages
...essential business of levying their quotas of men. In " I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary...to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or even to the expectation of those who employ me, as they will not make proper allowances for the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1835 - 582 pages
...this or that member of Assembly. " I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of tiiings, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of...is impossible, under such a variety of distressing cireumstances, to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or- even to the expectation of those... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 590 pages
...local attachments of this or that member of Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary...to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or even to the expectation of those, who employ me, as they will not make proper allowances for the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 588 pages
...local attachments of this or that member of Assembly. I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest, that a pecuniary...to conduct matters agreeably to public expectation, or even to the expectation of those, who employ me, as they will not make proper allowances for the... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...idea of our situation. * * * ' I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things, and solemnly protest, that a pecuniary reward of twenty...a year would not induce me to undergo what I do.' Gen. Washington to the President of Congress, Dec. 20. ' 1 have labored, ever since I have been in... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - United States - 1847 - 460 pages
...the local attachments of this or that member of Assembly. I am wearied to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds would not induce me to undergo what I do," &c. — Sparks't Washington, iv. 184. to move Mount Atlas.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 pages
...not commenced until it was too late to be effected I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motion of things ; and I solemnly protest, that a...circumstances, to conduct matters agreeably to public expectations." CHAPTEK XLI. THE ENEMY CROSS THE HUDSON.— RETREAT OP THE GARRISON FROM FORT LEB. —... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 204 pages
...letters to this sympathizing recipient of his confidence :—" I am wearied to death with the retrogade motion of things, and I solemnly protest that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds would not induce me to undergo what I do."* " In a word, if every nerve is not strained to recruit... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 276 pages
...to this sympathizing recipient of his confidence : — " I am wearied to death with the retrograde motion of things, and I solemnly protest that a pecuniary reward of twenty thousand pounds would not induce me to undergo what I do."* " In a word, if every nerve is not strained to recruit... | |
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