 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 21848Full view - About this book
 | John Church Hamilton - 1834 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | James Herring, James Barton Longacre - 1835 - 430 pages
...infallible symptoms of superior genius. " I contemn," said he in a letter to a confidential schoolfellow, " the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune...station ; I mean to prepare the way for futurity." This extraordinary feeling and determined purpose in a youth of twelve years ; this ardent love for... | |
 | 1835 - 436 pages
...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 m« from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1842 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 pages
...the counting-house of Mr. Nicholas Cruger, a wealthy and highly respectable merchant of Santa Cruz. By his skill and assiduity as a clerk, young Hamilton...attachment to untarnished integrity, guarantees of splendid succcess, which in this instance were never disproved by facts. While in Mr. Cruger's office, the predestined... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 498 pages
...the counting-house of Mr. Nicholas Cruger, a wealthy and highly respectable merchant of Santa Cruz. By his skill and assiduity as a clerk, young Hamilton...the strongest attachment to untarnished integrity, guarantee.? of splendid succcess, which in this instance were never disproved by facts. While in Mr.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 514 pages
...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...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 - 1851 - 526 pages
...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...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 - 1855 - 554 pages
...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 Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...artlessness, ' 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... | |
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