 I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service are imperious.  Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics - Page 178by Lewis Sheldon Welch, Walter Camp - 1899 - 628 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not injlurnccd by tiie expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service, necessary...public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the {.riffencies of nu/ country demand a peculicr service, its claims to the performance of Ihnt... | |
 | Isaac William Stuart - History - 1856 - 330 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary...public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...which I make no return ; yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I WISH TO BE USEFUL, AND EVERY KIND OF SERVICE NECESSARY FOR THlE PUBLIC GOOD, BECOMES HONORABLE BY BEING NECESSARY. If the exigencies- of my 2 country demand a... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...which I make no return; yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary...public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand" a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that peculiar... | |
 | 1905 - 406 pages
...the commander of her armies. Yet I am not influenced by the hope of promotion or of pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful and every kind of service, necessary...public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, her claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - Biography - 1867 - 1030 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary...public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1881 - 544 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary...public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Spies - 1886 - 200 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by any expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful ; and every kind of service necessary...public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | Richard Gilmour - Readers (Elementary) - 1885 - 296 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or procuring reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service, necessary...public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 218 pages
...which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by any expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful ; and every kind of service necessary...public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to the performance of that service... | |
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