 ... 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 my station. I am confident,...  Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer - 441 ページ1835全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - 512 ページ
...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...folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it; * This letter was written by Hamilton before he had renched the age of thirteen. yet, Neddy, we have... | |
 | 1856 - 542 ページ
...society in Sacramento. — [•'•••'• •'"'i>•>• confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire...see, and may be justly said to build castles in the nir ; my folly makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, dear Neddy, we have seen such schemes... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 526 ページ
...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...for futurity. I'm no philosopher, you see, and may justly be said to build castles in the air; my folly makes VOL. I. 1 me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 ページ
...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 it ; but 1 Soo those resolutions in txtenn, in Force's Am. Archives, 4th series, vol, i., p. 312. I mean to... | |
 | 1856 - 964 ページ
...1856.] 372 The Genius and Character of Alexander Hamilton. confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire...makes me ashamed, and beg you'll conceal it ; yet, dear Neddy, we have seen such schemes successful, when the projector is constant. I shall conclude... | |
 | 1857 - 668 ページ
...risk my 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 ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity." Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies during the few... | |
 | 1857 - 610 ページ
...risk my life, thongh not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident that my youth excludes me :O: ; ; ; Such was the purpose of Hamilton at the age of twelve years. He continued his studies daring the few... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1895 - 526 ページ
...risk my life, though not mv character to exalt my station. I am confident 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." But if young Hamilton was beating his wings against the bars of his West Indian counting-house, he... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 ページ
...though not my character, to esn'.t my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from nny hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it; but I mean to prepare the wny for futurity. I'm no philosopher, yon see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air;... | |
 | James Parton - 1868 - 694 ページ
...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 it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity. I am no philosopher, you see, and may be justly said to build castles in the air ; my folly makes me... | |
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