 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 436 pages
...supposed did perceive, from the tenor of myletlurs, that I was apprehensive 1 coulil not avoid [his appointment, as I did not pretend to intimate when I should return. Thai was the case. It wai utterly out of my power to refuse this appoint ment, without exposing my... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - American essays - 1835 - 474 pages
...this service, I shall hope that my undertaking of 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 that I could not even pretend to intimate when I should return. That was the case. It was utterly out... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 444 pages
...this service, I shall hope that my undertaking of 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 that I could not even pretend to intimate when I should return. That was the case. It was utterly out... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...character to such censures, as would have reflected dishonour upon myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 650 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor...myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not, and ought not, to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.... | |
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It was utterly out of my power to refuse this appointment, without exposing my character to such censures, as would have reflected dishonor upon myself, and given pain to my friends. 
