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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... "
The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous ... - Page 1
by George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834 - 12 pages
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Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 3

Railroad engineering - 1834 - 436 pages
...in une month with you at home, than I have the mnst distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay to be seven times seven years. But as it has been...that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope my undertaking is designed to answer some goad purpose. You might, and I supposed did perceive, from...
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Letters from the South, Volume 2

James Kirke Paulding - Southern States - 1835 - 224 pages
...trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness and felicity in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of reaping abroad, if my stay was to be seven times seven years. " But as it has been a kind of destiny...
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Paulding's Works, Volume 3

James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 444 pages
...trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness and felicity in one month with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect of reaping abroad, if my stay was to be seven times seven years. " But as it has been a kind of destiny...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...being a trust too great for my " capacity, and that I should enjoy more real hap" piness in one month with you at home than I " have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some " good purpose, .... and I shall rely therefore " confidently on that Providence which has here" tofore preserved and...
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The Life of George Washington: First President of the United States

Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...part from you and the family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too ereat for my capacity. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown...this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it ig designed to answer some good purpose ; and I shall rely, therefore, confidently on the Providence...
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Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Generals - 1848 - 394 pages
...his wife, he gave utterance to a sentiment which was shared very generally throughout the nation : " As it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service," said he, " I shall tope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose." The appointment...
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Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington

Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1850 - 276 pages
...its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that 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 wei'e to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles ...

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...being a trust too great for my " capacity, and that I should enjoy more real hap" piness in one month with you at home than I " have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some " good purpose, .... and I shall rely therefore " confidently on that Providence which has here" tofore preserved and...
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The pictorial field-book of the Revolution; or ..., Volume 1; Volume 122

Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...being a trust too great for my capacity ; and that I should enjoy more real bappinctw in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." Washington was at this time forty-three years of age. 9 His commission was in the following words :...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...its being a trust too great for my capacity; and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect...abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years." Washington was at this time forty-three years of age. 3 His commission was in the following words :...
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