 | John Fiske - 1902 - Страниц: 446
...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...life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - Страниц: 444
...Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I conternn the grovelling ambition 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 hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Weymer Jay Mills - 1902 - Страниц: 448
...says: " 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 - 1903 - Страниц: 324
...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 hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - Страниц: 600
...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... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1903 - Страниц: 318
...Ned, my ambition is SO that I contemn t^P (cn.nvp11ir|fy rnn_clerk, or the like, to which my fortune 3 condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, \ /though not my character, to exalt my station. I Aam confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - Страниц: 620
...the groveling 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... | |
 | Joseph Hampton Moore - 1907 - Страниц: 444
...writing a schoolboy friend at the age of twelve, he said : "I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...character, to exalt my station ; I mean to prepare the way to futurity." We were reminded by the Trinidad orator that Hamilton was a remarkable boy and that before... | |
 | 1907 - Страниц: 638
...vocabulary well nigh Johnsonian. "I contemn," he writes, "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... | |
 | Joseph Hampton Moore - 1907 - Страниц: 456
...writing a schoolboy friend at the age of twelve, he said : "I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly...life, though not my Character, to exalt my station ; T mean to prepare the way to futurity." We were reminded by the Trinidad orator that Hamilton was... | |
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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... 
