 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...  Current Comment and Legal Miscellany - Page 1281890Full 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 - United States - 1835 - 430 pages
...superior genius. " I contemn," said he in a letter to a confidential schoolfellow, " the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns...every period of his after life. While he was in Mr. Crager's office, HAMILTON devoted all his leisure moments to study. Mathematics, chemistry, ethics,... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 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 - United States - 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 - Orators - 1848 - 498 pages
...was thirteen years old, he wrote as follows to a young friend at school : " I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns...station : I mean, to prepare the way for futurity." Herein gleams the true fire of a noble youth, love of fame and the strongest attachment to untarnished... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 742 pages
...was thirteen years old, he wrote as follows to a young friend at school : ' I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, to which my fortune condemns...station : I mean to prepare the way for futurity.' Herein gleams the true fire of a noble youth, love of fame and the strongest attachment to untarnished... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...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 risk my life, but not my character, to exalt my station. I am * Our old correspondent, the author of the " Flush... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 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 - Finance - 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... | |
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