...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders 1 have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." 12. This address being ended, Ggn. Washington advanced and delivered his commission into the hands...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. VOL. VIII. 64 APPENDIX. APPENDIX. No. I. p. 11. MARCH OF THE DETACHMENT UNDER THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE...

...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august'body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." When accepting his commission, congress, through their president, expressed in glowing language to...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whoso orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." What a sword was that which he resigned! Other swords were stained with blood — other swords were...

...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." This"address being ended, General Washington advanced and delivered his commission into the hands of...

...Hating now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action — and here oft-er my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.' The delight with which Washington returned to private life is very vividly manifested in those of his...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." It fell to the lot of Mifflin, the lately-elected president of the newly-organized Congress, to reply...

...benedictions which greeted him from every city, village, and hamlet through or near which he passed—all requiring grateful acknowledgment and respectful reply....a sound broke the sacred silence which accompanied i this act, for a parallel to which, in its simplicity of greatness, the mind | vainly stretches back...

...of action ; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have BO long acted, I here return my commission, and take...to which, in its simplicity of greatness, the mind vainly stretches back through the wreck-strewed ages of the past ; and it was not till several minutes...

...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. He then advanced and delivered to the President his commission, with a copy of his address, and having resumed his place,...