 I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal vanity to the wish of meeting the Chesapeake, or that I depend only upon your personal ambition for your acceding to this invitation : we have both nobler motives. You will feel it as...  Battles of the British Navy - Pagina 425door Joseph Allen - 1852Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1813 - 716 pagina’s
...abroad, where all you r efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal vanity to the wish of meeting th e Chesapeake; or thai I depend only upon your personal amb'ition for your acceding to this invitation:... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1814 - 504 pagina’s
...be hauled down when it was deemed fair to begin hostilities. ' I entreat you, sir,' he concludes, ' not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal vanity...for your acceding to this invitation. We have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment, if I say that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | 362 pagina’s
...rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. 1 intrcat you, sir, not to imagine that 1 am nrged by mere personal vanity to the wish of meeting the...that I depend only upon your personal ambition for yonr acceding to this imitation : we ha\e both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if... | |
 | William James - 1817 - 788 pagina’s
...abroad ; where all your efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I entreat you, Sir, not to imagine that I am urged...for your acceding to this invitation : we have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | William Augustus Weaver - 1826 - 242 pagina’s
...abroad. where all your efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal rarity to the wish of meeting the Chesapeake ; or that I depend only upon your personal ambition for... | |
 | Abel Bowen - 1830 - 410 pagina’s
...abroad, where all your efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged...for your acceding to this invitation : we have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the 'result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | 1831 - 338 pagina’s
...be hauled down when it was deemed fair to begin hostilities. ' I entreat you, sir,' he concludes, ' not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal vanity...for your acceding to this invitation. We have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment, if I say that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | 1836 - 480 pagina’s
...all your efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I intreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal...for your acceding to this invitation : we have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pagina’s
...your efforts, in case of a rencontre, would, however gallant, be perfectly hopeless. I intreatyou, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal...for your acceding to this invitation : we have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
 | William James - 1837 - 632 pagina’s
...fixing the place of meeting1, and providing against all interruption, Captain Broke concludes thus : "I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged...for your acceding to this invitation. We have both nobler motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say, that the result of our meeting may be the... | |
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