 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall WASHINGTON IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY. 133 hope that my undertaking is designed to answer some good purpose.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1886 - 500 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has l>een a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...appointment, from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, but, as a land of destiny has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. I shall rely confidently on that Providence which has hitherto... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1887 - 122 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....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 of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....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... | |
 | German Americans - 1888 - 748 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown upon me this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it u designed to answer some good purpose. Cran... | |
 | George Washington - 1889 - 530 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a_kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed... | |
 | William M. Thayer - History - 1890 - 520 pages
...more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years....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... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 724 pages
...one month with you a: home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay was to be seven times seven years. But as it has been...upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. . . . My earnest and ardent desire is, that you would pursue... | |
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I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall... 
