 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...attend a campaign here as I then was, that your Honor would not have been so troublesomely solicited as you were. Yet I do not offer this as a reason for...quitting the service. For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1834 - 574 pages
...was, that your Honor would not have been so troublesomelv solicited as you were. Yet I do not ofter this as a reason for quitting the service. For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...Speaker thought the officers' pay too small) to have it enlarged. For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter myself, resolution to face what any man dares, as shall be proved when it comes... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pages
...life was somewhat presumptuous. " For my own part," said he to Governor Dinwiddi, "I can answer that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials ; and, I flatter myself, resolution to face what any man dares, as shall be proved when it comes... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Generals - 1840 - 210 pages
...to Governor * Edinburgh Review, July, 1830, p. 498. Dinwiddie ; "For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter myself, resolution to face what any man dares."* To a spirit like this, war... | |
 | François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...was somewhat presumptuous : " For my own part," said he to Governor Dinwiddie, " I can answer that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and I flatter myself resolution to face what any man dares, as shall be proved when it comes... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...here as I then was, that your Honor would not have been so troublesomely solicited as you were. Yel I do not offer this as a reason for quitting the service. For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 568 pages
...here as I then was, that your Honor would not have been so troublesomely solicited as you were. Yet T do not offer this as a reason for quitting the service. For my own part I can answer, that I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
...if I serve as a private volunteer, which I greatly prefer to the establishment we are upon. * * * * I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and I flatter myself resolution to face what any man dares, as shall be proved when it comes... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 498 pages
...if I serve as a private volunteer, which I greatly prefer to the establishment we are upon. * * * * I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I natter myself, resolution to face what any man dares, as shall be proved when it comes... | |
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I have a constitution hardy enough to encounter and undergo the most severe trials, and, I flatter myself, resolution to face what any man durst, as shall be proved when it comes to the test, which I believe we are on the borders of. 
