 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - 1925 - 438 Seiten
...FROM ORIGINAL AND HITHERTO UNUSED MATERIAL By SAMUEL H. WANDELL and MEADE MINNIGERODE VOLUME ONE " I had rather not live, than not be the daughter of such a man." THEODOBIA BUBB. With Sixtyfoue Illustrations GP PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON 3P)e Knickerbocker $r... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1864 - 852 Seiten
...me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant do my best qualities appear ! My vani- | ty would be greater if I had not been placed so near...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Mr. Madison was President then. In other days her father had been on terms of peculiar intimacy with... | |
 | James Parton - 1877 - 500 Seiten
...necessary to make me worship you as a superior being ; such enthusiasm does youi character excite in me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Mr. Madison was President then. In other days her father had been on terms of peculiar intimacy with... | |
 | James Parton - 1867 - 484 Seiten
...necessary to make me worship you as a superior being ; sucli enthusiasm does your character excite in me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Mr. Madison was President then. In other days her father had been on terms of peculiar intimacy with... | |
 | James Parton - 1867 - 496 Seiten
...you as a superior being ; such enthusiasm does your character excite in me. When I afterward rev«rt to myself, how insignificant do my best qualities...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Mr. Madison was President then. In other days her father had been on terms of peculiar intimacy with... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 Seiten
...necessary to make me worship you as a superior being ; such enthusiasm does your character excite in me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Never had the worthiest and most virtuous of fathers so touching a tribute of love and reverence from... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 Seiten
...necessary to make me worship you as a superior being; euch enthusiasm does your character excite in me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant...not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Nevex-ftad the worthiest and most virtuous of fathers so touching a tribute of love and reverence from... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1879 - 814 Seiten
...qualities appear! My vanity would be greater, if I had not been placed so near you ; and yet my pride is in our relationship. I had rather not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Burr, on the evening before his duel with Hamilton, wrote to his daughter a long letter, in which he... | |
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I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant do my best qualities appear ! My vanity would be greater if I had not been placed so near you ; and yet my pride is our relationship. I had rather not live than not be the daughter of such a man/ 
