 | Clarence Rook - 1907 - 450 Seiten
...heart of all who hope that now — something has been accomplished. " It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...prophet says, to find a man, and not find one, unless perhaps Arbuthnot were he. (/) 1 have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. ENGLISH. THIRD HONOPR PAPER. Examiner — HM PERCIVAL, ESQ., MA The figures in the margin indicate... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 388 Seiten
...is the reflection of the man of fifty. "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception," he wrote; "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 Seiten
...first started in his mind. The other is the passage in which the great historian records how, on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house at Lausanne, and how then, laying down his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...indignation or curiosity has long since subsided in pure and placid indifference. ... I have presumed to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the zyth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 Seiten
...with a browner shade the evening of life. Autobiography THE COMPLETION OF THE H1STORV I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the ayth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 Seiten
...indignation or curiosity has long since subsided in pure and placid indifference. ... I have presumed to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2yth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 Seiten
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, on the 2-j'h of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 490 Seiten
...the reflection of the man of fifty. "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception," he wrote ; "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 Seiten
...the reflection of the man of fifty. "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception," he wrote ; "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last... | |
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I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. 
