There was considerable doubt as to whether he would accept.
He undertook to do so; but Morrison, true to his independent nature, declined to accept anything else, declaring that he would like to have the office of commissioner, and if he could not have that he would accept nothing.
I regard him as the best qualified man in this country for any position in the public service which he would accept.
Accordingly he declined, point-blank, to see Colonel Morley; and declared that the terms he himself had proposed were the lowest he would accept.
He loftily declared, that he would accept no office except that of secretary at war, and the ministers were not yet able to dispense with Sir William Yonge in that department.
At last, as an instance of prodigious compliance, she told him, that if he would accept such a dinner as a butterwoman's daughter could give him, he should be welcome.
Should such a period ever arrive, hewould accept it with joy-the only chance he can ever have for it!
Donnelly was the first channel of inquiry whether I would accept, and was very strong that I should.
It must be a month since Lord Cranbrook desired Donnelly to find out if I would acceptthe P.
Were you to ask me now, I know not what terms I would accept of.
Croswell needed assistance in these days of financial quakings and threatened party divisions, but he would acceptit only from a master.
This he declined, informing Mr. Buchanan, as had been agreed upon, that at that moment he could be of no service to him in any position except that of the Treasury Department, and that he would accept no other post.
On my return to my lodging, I found the Abbe Gama, whom I had invited to dinner, and he asked me if I would accept a post to represent Portugal at the approaching European Congress at Augsburg.
If I were certain of it, I would accept immediately; but all I have heard from his lips was that he left me free to make a choice.
If you should wish to close the lips of a logician calling himself a philosopher, who dares to argue that in this life grief overbalances pleasure, ask him whether he would accept a life entirely without sorrow and happiness.
At midnight the three muskets were returned, and I was so pleased with the young king's promptitude and honesty, I begged he would accept them.
Finally on February 24 he replied to an appeal from a group of his supporters, including seven state governors, that he would accept a nomination.
Publicly it was stated that Blaine refused for reasons which were "entirely personal," but intimate friends knew that he would accept a nomination if it came without solicitation and as the result of a unanimous party call.
He tells me he had at first declined the living, but now, having seen it, he thought that if certain things were done he would accept it, if you had not offered it to anyone else already.
Rousseau, whether he would accept of a pension publicly granted him, that his majesty may not be exposed to a second refusal.
While we were at Calais, I asked him whether, in case the King of England thought proper to gratify him with a pension, he would accept of it.
I told her I had not given him the least occasion to think I wanted it, or that I would accept of it from him.
His cousin Charlotte, particularly, should attend me, as my companion, if I would accept of her, as soon as she was able to go abroad.
He did not mention it as what he imagined I would accept, but only to confirm to me what he had said, that he himself knew of none fit for me.
As a proof of this, I had brought him a few curiosities that I trusted he would accept, and I regretted that the impossibility of procuring porters had necessitated the abandonment of others that had been intended for him.
He told me that I must be hungry and thirsty, therefore he hoped I would accept something to eat and drink: accordingly he presented me with seventeen cows, twenty pots of sour plantain cider and many loads of unripe plantains.
We had literally nothing but a few most ragged towels; he would accept no excuse, and insisted upon a portmanteau being unpacked, that he might satisfy himself by actual inspection.
I replied that upon the receipt of a draft for five hundred dollars I would accept of the same as a general retainer.
He would accept no excuse, and insisted upon a portmanteau being unpacked, that he might satisfy himself by actual inspection.
He told me that I must be hungry and thirsty; therefore he hoped I would accept something to eat and drink.
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