 | 1837 - 882 pages
...on board any of the ships now in the ofiing. " My former letters will have shown you how much this will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for the public spirit of any man who does not saerifice his private views and convenience, when it is necessary. As all my baggage, &c. are on board... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1834 - 858 pages
...on board any of the ships now in the offing. ' My former letters will have shown you how much this will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for...private views and convenience, when it is necessary. As all my baggage, &c. are on board one of the transports not yet come in, I go as bare as is possible.... | |
 | 1840 - 974 pages
...prudence : — " My former letters will have shown you how much this (his being superseded by Gen. Baird) will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for...private views and convenience when it is necessary." with irresistible commands, the chosen people from their bondage. Attilas, instinct with fury to destroy,... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1837 - 802 pages
...on board any of the ships now in the offing. ' My former letters will have shown you how much this will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for...private views and convenience, when it is necessary. As all my baggage, &c. are on board one of the transports not yet come in, I go as bare as is possible.... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...I have never had much value for the ?esJ?tch"s, public spirit of any man who does not sacrifice hi* private °' "' ' views and convenience when it is...which the above passage is taken, on the 25th March, Colonel Wellesley was taken suddenly ill, which prevented CHAP, his carrying this plan into execution;... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1842 - 1008 pages
...be on board any of the ships now in the offing. My former letters will have shown you how much this will annoy me; but I have never had much value for...private views and convenience, when it is necessary. As all my baggage, &c. are on board one of the transports not yet come in, I go as bare as is possible.... | |
 | 1852 - 136 pages
...waiting for the commander of the force. In mentioning this intention to his brother Henry, he added, " I have never had much value for the public spirit...private views and convenience when it is necessary." The arrival of Major-General Baird, on the 30th March, obviated the necessity of this bold step, and... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1852 - 438 pages
...him of doing just as he pleased. In a letter to the Hon. H. "Wellesley, of March, 1801, he says : " I have never had much value for the public spirit...private views and convenience when it is necessary." And that this was an ingrained principle was apparent in 1800, when he declined to take the command... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - 1852 - 138 pages
..." You will have seen," says he in a private letter to his brother Henry, "how much this resolution will annoy me, but I have never had much value for...the public spirit of any man who does not sacrifice hi» private views and convenience when it is necessary." This was written on the 25th of March, 1801;... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...position to be ; and, in a letter to his brother Henry, he said, " Tou have seen how much this resolution will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for...private views and convenience when it is necessary." He had, with great pains, drawn out a plan of operations for the war in Egypt; but, just as he was... | |
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My former letters will have shown you how much this will annoy me ; but I have never had much value for the public spirit of any man who does not sacrifice his private views and convenience, when it is necessary. 
