 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - Страниц: 460
...who had already gone to New York, he says, "I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...my station I mean to prepare the way for futurity." In October, 1772, Hamilton landed in Boston and from thence proceeded to New York. At the age of sixteen... | |
 | George A. Sanders - 1895 - Страниц: 416
...grovelling condition of a 1 Depew's Orations and After-dinner Speeches, p. 18. 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 that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1895 - Страниц: 526
...weakness, N , 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 that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it,... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - Страниц: 546
...old, he wrote to a young friend at school as follows: " 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." The sentiments which Hamilton expressed in his letter were those of a noble youth, eagerly desirous... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - Страниц: 486
...to a friend of his own years confessed his ambition. " I would willingly risk my life," wrote he, " though not my character, to exalt my station. I mean to prepare the way for futurity ; we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant." That way he prepared by integrity... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1896 - Страниц: 562
...maturity of its powers was Alexander Hamilton. At twelve years of age, a merchant's clerk, he writes: "I would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." At thirteen he was the responsible head of a great commercial establishment, controlling the details... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - Страниц: 554
...preserved to us from this period, he says: "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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - Страниц: 988
...Stevens, who had recently gone to New York to study : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...life, though not my character, to exalt my station." lu his fifteenth year the way was opened, funds were provided by discerning friends, and Hamilton took... | |
 | Alma Holman Burton - 1898 - Страниц: 264
...counting-room. Alexander did not like clerking very well ; he wrote to a young friend in Nevis : " I would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." Those were brave words for a boy of twelve years, were they not? He would not risk his character to... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1902 - Страниц: 632
...of another young occupant of a stool in a counting-house, whose career was destined to cross Andre's in the most interesting period of his life. "I contemn,"...be guessed, was to be Honora. His epistles, which sometime covered letters to Miss Sneyd, were evidently designed to pass from the hands of his fair... | |
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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... 
