 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - Страниц: 456
...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...life, though 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... | |
 | 1835 - Страниц: 436
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - Страниц: 512
...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...life, though 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... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - Страниц: 498
...he wrote as follows to a young friend at school : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...station : I mean, to prepare the way for futurity." Herein gleams the true fire of a noble youth, love of fame and the strongest attachment to untarnished... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 542
...weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling ambition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, but not my character, to exalt my station. I am * Our old correspondent, the author of the " Flush... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - Страниц: 514
...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...life, though 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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - Страниц: 526
...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...life, though 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1855 - Страниц: 554
...grovelling condition of a clerk to which my fortune condemns me," writes he to a youthful friend, " and would willingly risk my life, though not my character,...station. * * * I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I am no philosopher, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; yet we have seen such schemes... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - Страниц: 682
...artlessness, ' 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...life, though 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... | |
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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... 
