 | Frederick Scott Oliver - 1912 - Страниц: 540
...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 preface the way for futurity. I 'm no philosopher, you ' see, and may justly be said to build castles... | |
 | Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - Страниц: 380
...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...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; yet,... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - Страниц: 238
...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." The expression savors of the grandiloquence of the last century, but the thought is natural and even... | |
 | Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy, John Thomson Faris - 1918 - Страниц: 386
...letter he said: I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortunes condemn me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my...desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. ... I shall conclude by saying I wish there was a war. Less than a year after this letter was written... | |
 | Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy, John Thomson Faris - 1918 - Страниц: 384
...life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes ine from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. ... I shall conclude by saying I wish there was a war. Less than a year after this letter was written... | |
 | Frederick Scott Oliver - 1920 - Страниц: 598
...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 preface the way for futurity. I 'm no philosopher, you ' see, and may justly be said to build castles... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - Страниц: 652
...and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my status. I am confident, then, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate...desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." There were reactionary tendencies even during Washington's administration. Jefferson, then Secretary... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1925 - Страниц: 224
...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...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 I beg you 11 conceal it... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1925 - Страниц: 666
...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 'm no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1880 - Страниц: 214
...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 shall conclude by saying, I wish there was a war." Assisted by those who perceived his talent,... | |
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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,... 
