 | William O. Stoddard - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 384 pages
...senator's letter. " Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment." " What appointment?" " To West Point. I have applied for it." " But I won't go." The general himself adds, in telling the story, that his father merely replied that he thought he would,... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1894 - 694 pages
...appointment." " What ppointment?" I inquired. "To West Point; 1 have applied for it." " But I won'tgo," I said. He said he thought I would, and I thought...idea of the acquirements necessary to get through. 1 did not believe I possessed them, and could not bear the idea of failing. There had been four boys... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 478 pages
...Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, " Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment."...won't go," I said. He said he thought I would, and I tJwught so too, if he did. I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1900 - 184 pages
...honourable service. The father settled the question ; and this is the son's account of it : "Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment....thought I would ; and I thought so, too, if he did." The Italics are Grant's own, and he seldom uses them. Since his career is offered as an inspiration... | |
 | Walter Allen - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 184 pages
...an education and a life service was opened before him. His father said to him one day: "'Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment.'...thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did." The italics are the general's. They make it plain that he did not think it prudent to make further... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 694 pages
...honourable service. The father settled the question ; and this is the son's account of it : " 'Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment.'...thought I would ; and I thought so, too, if he did." Since his career is offered as an inspiration to American youth, it is a pity that his bringing up... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Elizabeth Stevens - Slavery - 1903 - 448 pages
...Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, " Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment."...thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did. bailors [NO. 44 of my going to 1 Mry strong induce9] 11 to travel. Going -| bportunity of visitiiKnent,... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 450 pages
...Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, " Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment."...thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did. Besides this argument in favor of my going to West Point there was another very strong inducement.... | |
 | Jeannette Rector Hodgdon - United States - 1908 - 366 pages
...it." " But I won't go," answered the boy. Long afterward Grant wrote of this incident, " My father said he thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did." The West Point appointment was secured, but military life had no charm for the young westerner, and... | |
 | Jeannette Rector Hodgdon - United States - 1908 - 360 pages
...the Christmas holidays his father said, " Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive the appointment to West Point; I have applied for it." " But I won't go," answered the boy. Long afterward Grant wrote of this incident, " My father said he thought I would,... | |
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But I won't go," I said. He said he thought I would, and I thought so too, if he did. 
