 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - Страниц: 512
...not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I...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... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 542
...Sacramento. — [•'•••'• •'"'i>•>• confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but...see, and may be justly said to build castles in the nir ; my folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, dear Neddy, we have seen such schemes... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - Страниц: 514
...not my character, .to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do. I desire it ; but...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - Страниц: 526
...not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but...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... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 964
...Genius and Character of Alexander Hamilton. confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I...makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, dear Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful, when the projector is constant. I shall conclude... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 668
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I 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... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 624
...though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I 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... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1895 - Страниц: 526
...though not mv character to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." But if young Hamilton was beating his wings against the bars of his West Indian counting-house, he... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - Страниц: 714
...not my character, to esn'.t my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from nny hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the wny for futurity. I'm no philosopher, yon see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air;... | |
 | James Alexander Hamilton - 1869 - Страниц: 672
...not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I am no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air. My folly makes me... | |
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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 my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment,... 
