| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...weight of his publick station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of publick care, and hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestick virtues." This sentiment was more fully expressed to the Marquis La... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...his heart on being relieved from the weight of his public station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care, and...days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." This sentiment was more fully expressed to the Marquis La... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...weight of his pnblick station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of publick care, and hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestick virtues." This sentiment was more fully expressed to the Marquis La... | |
| Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...Governor Clinton, three days after his reaching Mount Vernon, he says: 'The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care, and...days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues.' In another to Lafayette, he thus unfolds the sound philosophy... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends,... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself cased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends,... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...written only three days after his arrival at Mount Vernon, he says, " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care, and...days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." " At length my dear marquis," said he to his noble and highly... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends,... | |
| Presidents - 1838 - 296 pages
...closed," said he, three days after his arri/al there, "I feel myself eased of a load of public care, anil hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...capable of the most enlarged views, he traced the broaa map of his country, and pointed out its capabilities and future greatness. In a letter to the... | |
| François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...he had divested himself of his official character, " I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men and in the practice of the domestic virtues *." Again, a few weeks later : "I am just beginning to experience... | |
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