 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 580 pages
...understood, that Mrs. Washington destroyed all his other letters to her a short time before her death. with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 578 pages
...understood, that Mrs. Washington destroyed all his other letters tn her a short time before her death. with you at home, than I have the most distant prospect...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - American essays - 1835 - 474 pages
...its being a 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 ptay was to be seven times seven years. " But as it has been a kind of destiny... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 444 pages
...its being a 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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...sciousness of its 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...undertaking it is designed to answer some " good purpose, .... and I shall rely therefore " confidently on that Providence which has here" tofore preserved and... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 650 pages
...family, but from a consciousness of its being a trust too great for my capacity, and that I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home,...undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose. You might, and I suppose did perceive, from the tenor of my letters, that I was apprehensive I could... | |
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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... 
