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, in company with Mr. Life of George Washington - Page 518by Washington Irving - 1869Full view - About this book
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...[1789. entered upon public life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...public life, he left upon his private journal. • " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernou, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New ifork, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with I mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for NewYork, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with... | |
| Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...always his custom to keep, he wrote at the close of that day» thus: " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New-York,—with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but... | |
| Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...it was his custom to keep, he wrote at the close of that day, thus: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...to express, set out for New York, — with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering... | |
| Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...diary, he has thus described his feelings upon this eventful occasion: "About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New Fork, in company with Mr. Thompson, and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1836 - 574 pages
...16th of April he commenced his journey. " About ten o'clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1836 - 584 pages
...IGth of April he commenced his journey. "About ten o'clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1836 - 590 pages
...16th of April he commenced his journey. " About ten o'clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my... | |
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