 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 trang
...the seat of government. An entry in his diary, dated the 16th, says, — "About ten o'clock, I hade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...painful sensations than I have words to express, set out with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 trang
...to call " this last great sacrifice." " I bade adieu to Mount V» rnon," he writes in his diary, " to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious a'Jd painful sensations than I have words to express, set out with the best disposition to render service... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 trang
...reason to call " this last great sacrifice." " I bade adieu to Mount V^rnon," he writes in his diary, " to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious a'Jd painful sensations than I have words to express, set out with the best disposition to render service... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 688 trang
...Washington wrote in his diary: " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with...than I have words to express, set out for New York with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 trang
...sixteenth of April, therefore, — the second day after receiving the certificate of his election, — he bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and, in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, proceeded to New York, where congress was then in... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1881 - 676 trang
...upon the anxious career of public life. " About ten o'clock this day, I bade adieu to Mount Vern on, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and, with...express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service to my country, in obedience... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1882 - 740 trang
...beginning of 1790, when Hamil1 On the day of his departure he wrote in his Diary : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...felicity ; and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious anil painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 trang
...best known from an entry in his journal on the evening of the loth of April, 1789. 'About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposion to render service to my country in obedience... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1883 - 54 trang
...summit of Mont Blanc, Washington writes in his diary, on the i6th of April, 1789: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 trang
...sixteenth of April, therefore, — the second day after receiving the certificate of his election, — he bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and, in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, proceeded to New York, where congress was then in... | |
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About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service... 
