 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 750 páginas
...seclusion of a purely agricultural life, ever since my return to my country. I have a fondness for it, and you will probably be surprised when I tell you that I have purchased a farm, at Kalamazoo, in the centre of Michigan, which I am preparing to improve and cultivate.... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly - 1873 - 628 páginas
...this, his first considerable ascent in the Alps : — To Miss FORBES. 'BRIEG, 29<A Augutt, 1841. ' You will probably be surprised when I tell you that I have just returned from the summit of the Jungfrau, where M. Agassiz and I and two Frenchmen, with four... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 588 páginas
...college. But as an honest man, and as a father and a husband, I cannot refuse to accept the money. You will probably be surprised when I tell you that I have shared the fate of nearly all leaders in revolutions or great reforms, by the complete sacrifice of... | |
 | Annie Armstrong - 2004 - 396 páginas
...and I both so dearly love. You have, however, asked one of the few things which I long ago decided I could not do, viz., have a picture of myself appear...think you may be amused at a little incident which I will now mention (I know you will kindly not speak of this, but, in the light of recent events, the... | |
 | 1923 - 834 páginas
...mail-order lists all those from whom we had not heard within six months or longer. To these Dear Madam: You will probably be surprised when I tell you that I have made a New Year's Resolution just for you. I have been so busy greeting my new friends and attending... | |
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I should have preferred either to have refused it, or to have done a glorious service by endowing a college. But as an honest man, and as a father and a husband, I cannot refuse to accept the money. You will probably be surprised when I tell you that... 