...arrived and he started. "About ten o'clock on the 16th April," says he in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...but with less hope of answering its expectations." His journey was a triumph : along the road, and in the cities, the whole population rushed * Washington's...

...arrived, and he commenced his journey. In his Diary, he writes ; " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...render service to my country, in obedience to its call, * Washington's Writings, Vol. IX. p. 488. but with less hope of answering its expectations." * His...

...feelings on the occasion have been recorded. " About ten o'clock," he says, in his diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I Jiave words to express, set out for NewYork, with the best disposition to render service to my country...

...described : — " 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...than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service to...

...special messenger, CHARLES THOMSON, notification of his election : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensa. tions than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. THOMSON and Colonel...

...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...

...government. Two days after receiving notice of his election, he " bade adieu," in the words of his diary, " to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind impressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York,...

...been preserved) on the close of the day on which he left his home : ' 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 (indeed) to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with little hope...

...life, and to domestick felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensa tions 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 with less hope of answering...

...lowing extract from his Diary, written on the day of his departure. " 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 'fctew York b company with Mr. Thomson and Colone' 'Humphreys, with the best disposition to render...