 | Cornelius Conway Felton - 1896 - 1086 pàgines
...these friendly invitations he says : " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility ; there is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause." In the following month, from an exposure to a violent rain, he took the fever which, in a few days,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 654 pàgines
...health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility; there is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. When I say this, I am at the same time aware of the difficulties and dissensions and defects of the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1903 - 1074 pàgines
...to take. He wrote to a friend : " I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my bein^ even of supposed utility. There is a stake worth millions such as I am, and while I can stand at all 1 must stand bv the cause. While I say this, 1 am aware of the difficulties, dissensions and defects... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904 - 644 pàgines
...health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility; there is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. When I say this, I am at the same time aware of the difficulties and dissensions and defects of the... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pàgines
...gave way. " I cannot quit Greece," he wrote to a friend, " while there is a chance of my being even of supposed utility. There is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all I must stand by the cause." It was not granted him to fall in battle, as he wished; he died of fever in the beleaguered town which... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - 1924 - 314 pàgines
...health should require my removal ; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of any (even supposed) utility. There is a stake worth millions...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. " When I say this, I am at the same time aware of the difficulties and dissensions and defects of the... | |
 | Dora Neill Raymond - 1924 - 394 pàgines
...Suliotes, did he give any intimation that he thought of leaving. " I cannot quit Greece," he wrote. " There is a stake worth millions such as I am, and...while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause." "If Greece should fall," he told Count Gamba, " I would bury myself in the ruins." He had never, even... | |
 | Albert Brecknock - 1926 - 344 pàgines
...whilst there is a chance of me being of (even supposed) utility. There is a stake worth millions to such as I am, and, while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. My future intentions as to Greece may be explained in a few words. I will remain here until she is... | |
 | Susan Johnson - 2010 - 370 pàgines
...circumstances will permit me to be supposed useful." Again he wrote: "I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of (even supposed) utility; there...While I say this, I am aware of the difficulties and dissensions and defects of the Greeks themselves; but allowances must be made for them by all reasonable... | |
 | 1825 - 450 pàgines
...kindnesses, in case my health should require my removal ; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of (even supposed} utility, —...dissentions, and defects of the Greeks themselves; but allowance must be made for them by all reasonable people." The Suliotes now betrayed some symptoms... | |
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I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of (even supposed) utility, — there is a stake worth millions such as I am, — and while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. While I say this, I am aware of the difficulties, and dissensions,... 
