 | Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - Страниц: 380
...weakness, Ned, 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... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - Страниц: 238
...to 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... | |
 | Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton - 1916 - Страниц: 558
...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... | |
 | 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 character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - 1920 - Страниц: 406
...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... | |
 | Frederick Scott Oliver - 1920 - Страниц: 598
...so that I contemn the grovelling ' condition of a clerk; or the like, to which my fortune, etc., ' 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 ; nor do I... | |
 | Anna De Koven - 1923 - Страниц: 232
...weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I condemn 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 an immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - Страниц: 652
...to his friend Edward Stephen. "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 exalt my status. I am confident, then, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1925 - Страниц: 224
...prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling conditions of a clerk or the like, to •which my fortune, etc., 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; nor do I desire... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - 1926 - Страниц: 366
...prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune, etc., condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though...not my character, to exalt my station ... I mean to preface the way for futurity. . . . My folly makes me ashamed, and I beg you will conceal it; yet,... | |
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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... 
