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" Fear of miscarriage prevents my giving a more particular account of this affair ; but this you may rely and depend upon, that I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will do, any action that may have the most distant tendency to injure... "
The Library of American Biography - Page 210
edited by - 1848
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The Farmer's Monthly Visitor, Volume 12

1852 - 448 pages
...ever will do any action, that may have the most distant tendency tojnjure the true interest of tliis my native country. " I most humbly beg your kind care...of safety, and hope shortly to have the pleasure of secing them. I also most humbly beseech your prayers for me, that under all my difficulties and troubles,...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors

Bence Jones - Davy, Humphry, Sir - 1871 - 450 pages
...this you may rely and depend upon, that I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will do, any action that may have the most distant tendency...family; and I hope you will take an opportunity to alleviat* their trouble by assuring them that I am in a place of safety, and hope shortly to have the...
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Old and New, Volume 3

Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1871 - 780 pages
...letters to his father-in-law, he wrote, ' I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will, do any action that may have the most distant tendency...injure the true interest of this, my native country." ' It is evident that his convictions had in some way become changed, as we shall see him so recommend...
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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter

George Edward Ellis - Nutrition - 1871 - 750 pages
...page, Benjamin Thompson had written, " I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will do, any action that may have the most distant tendency to injure the true interests of this my native country." Any one who should assume — as I do not — to maintain the...
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Social notes, concerning social reforms, social requirements, social ...

Samuel Carter Hall - 430 pages
...he wrote to his father-in-law that, " I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will do, any action that may have the most distant tendency...injure the true interest of this my native country." This resolve may have been sincere at the time, but it was not long-lived. It may be that he despaired...
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Leading American Men of Science

David Starr Jordan - Science - 1910 - 520 pages
...Rev. Walker, his father-inlaw, that he "never did, nor, let my treatment be what it will, ever will do any action that may have the most distant tendency to injure the true interests of this my native country." It is quite conceivable, however, that his definition of "true...
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The Count of Concord: A Novel

Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2008 - 486 pages
..."this you may rely & depend on, that I never did, nor (let my treatment be what it will) ever will, do any action, that may have the most distant tendency...injure the true interest of this my native Country." Well-meaning men may disagree and honest adversaries quarrel as to the true nature of true interest...
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The Count of Concord: A Novel

Nicholas Delbanco - Fiction - 2008 - 486 pages
...discernment. "I must humbly beg your kind care of my distressed Family: And hope you will take oppertunity to alleviate their trouble, by assuring them that I am in a place of safety."Where it was he would not say, but "this you may rely & depend on, that I never did, nor (let...
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