It has been, and is, my earnest desire to correct abuses that have grown up in the civil service of the country.
There appeared, also, an earnest desire in the committee, that, directly after this, I should begin my Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave Trade.
Coke's motion was carried with only four dissentient voices; and his majesty replied to the address, that it was his "earnest desire to comply with the wishes of his faithful commons.
Mr. Tierney asked how ministers could suppose, that in recommending such an appointment, they were cherishing that unity and harmony which it appeared to be his majesty's earnest desire to cultivate.
As to the business which I know you would so fain have taken effect, my earnest desire is, that you stand still.
My earnest desire to you is, that you would seek the Lord and His face.
Pardon me to express my earnest desire to your Lordship, for Zion's sake, for whom we should not hold our peace.
He is distinguished by feelings of compassion and an ardent love for all beings, as well as by an earnest desire of labouring for their welfare.
He longs for the state of Neibban, as the only one worthy of the wise man's earnest desire.
Suddenly, he was seized with an earnest desire of seeing him and hearing his doctrine.
For himself, he avowed an earnest desire to stop the further effusion of blood, as one every drop of whose blood was Southern.
That they may discover yet more of the precious treasure, is my earnest desire on their behalf.
Among those who felt a vocation to preach the word of God, there was an earnest desire to pursue its study under the guidance of one who was the father and oracle of the creed they had espoused.
Sir," she said at length, "I have for some time past endeavoured by every means in my power to impress upon the Cardinal de Richelieu my earnest desire to return to France by his interposition; but all my attempts have been useless.
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