| George Shea - 1877 - Страниц: 90
...confess, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling ambition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...station. I .... mean to prepare the way for futurity. I 'm no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air; my folly makes me... | |
| American Bar Association - 1878 - Страниц: 820
...letter, still extant, in which he said : "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... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1879 - Страниц: 634
...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... | |
| George Shea - 1880 - Страниц: 516
...Neddy, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling 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... | |
| James Parton - 1880 - Страниц: 688
...wrote, "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 - 1881 - Страниц: 986
...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 Cabot Lodge - 1882 - Страниц: 322
...his friend Edward Stevens : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like," he says, " 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... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1882 - Страниц: 324
...his friend Edward Stevens : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like," he says, " to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life though not my character, to exult my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment,... | |
| James Parton - 1883 - Страниц: 860
...wrote, "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... | |
| Benjamin Cummings Truman - 1883 - Страниц: 610
...' 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 wish there was a war.' Hamilton was a good French as well as English scholar. His first friend was... | |
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