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" I shall be present or not, for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt... "
The Southern literary messenger - Page 370
1856
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Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 3

Railroad engineering - 1835 - 436 pages
...life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes m« from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire...makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful, when the projector is constant. I shall conclude by saying,...
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The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton ...

Alexander Hamilton - United States - 1842 - 512 pages
...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it; * This letter was written by Hamilton before he had renched the age of thirteen. yet, Neddy, we have...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1850 - 514 pages
...condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, .to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...for futurity. I'm . no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ;...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1851 - 526 pages
...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air; my folly makes VOL. I. 1 me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal...
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The lives and times of the chief justices of the supreme court of ..., Volume 40

Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but 1 Soo those resolutions in txtenn, in Force's Am. Archives, 4th series, vol, i., p. 312. I mean to...
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An Address on the Genius, Public Life, and Opinions of Alexander Hamilton

Fernando Wood - 1856 - 64 pages
...and would, willingly risk my life, but not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that uiy youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment,...desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I am no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 1

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 612 pages
...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful, when the projector is constant. I shall conclude by saying,...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 1

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1857 - 610 pages
...fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any...makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful, when the projector is constant. I shall conclude by saying,...
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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 624 pages
...me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate...desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies during the few...
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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate...it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies during the few...
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