 | Owen Wister - Biografias - 1928 - 298 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation. That he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a King. ... He ended in this high tone. There was a pause. Some difficulty in resuming our question.'' Poor,... | |
 | 1922 - 616 pages
...that Washington is said finally to have exclaimed "that he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king."104 The imprudent behavior of the minister Genet, in appealing from the President to the people,... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than be made Emperor of the world; and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a King. That that rascal Frencau sent him three of his papers every day, as if he thought he would become the distributor of... | |
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... that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since ; that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation ; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made... 
