 | Robert Edward Lee - 1904 - 504 pages
...York, and have placed at his disposal an immense sum of money, he declined, saying: " I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." To a request from some of his old officers that he should associate himself with a business enterprise... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - Electronic journals - 1905 - 1032 pages
...enterprises wooed him in vain. " I am grateful ", he wrote in answer to one proposal of this character, " but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." During the period of Reconstruction no word of bitterness escaped his lips, though he felt deeply the... | |
 | John Richard Deering - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 198 pages
...Very lucrative business proposals were kindly declined. To one such, his reply was : "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....young men to do their duty in life." The presidency of more than one university was declined for some one or another reason. On August 5, 1865, he was lovingly... | |
 | Philip Alexander Bruce - United States - 1907 - 394 pages
...during his remaining years, but also make ample provision for his family. " I am grateful," hereplied, " but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." When General Lee was first offered the presidency of the college, he unselfishly weighed the possibility... | |
 | American fiction - 1908 - 544 pages
...have placed at his disposal an immense sum of money. In declining this offer, he said: "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." You know, and I know, that there are bankers, as there are men of every calling and walk in American... | |
 | American fiction - 1908 - 616 pages
...have placed at his disposal an immense sum of money. In declining this offer, he said: "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." You know, and I know, that there are bankers, as there are men of every calling and walk in American... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Generals - 1908 - 344 pages
...than the students. "I have led the young men of the South to 269 battle," he said on one occasion; "I have seen many of them die on the field. I shall devote my remaining energy to training young men to do their duty in life." And nobly he performed this high task. The... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901 - 1909 - 496 pages
...represent Southern commerce, with a salary of $50,000 ; but this, too, he declined, saying: "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish;...ex-Confederates were directors, was offered him at a salary of $10,000; but this also he declined, saying: "I feel that I ought not to abandon the position I hold... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 784 pages
...in New York, and have placed at his disposal an immense sum of money," he replied: "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." ' Even here, in his seclusion, while honored by the best of those who had bravely fought against him,... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 790 pages
...in New York, and have placed at his disposal an immense sum of money," he replied: "I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish....energies to training young men to do their duty in life." 1 Even here, in his seclusion, while honored by the best of those who had bravely fought against him,... | |
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I am grateful, but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish. I have led the young men of the South in battle ; I have seen many of them die on the field ; I shall devote my remaining energies to training young men to do their duty in life. 
