...find recorded in his journal: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with...have words to express, set out for New York, with the l>cst dis]>osition to render service to my country, in obedience to its call, but with less hope of...

...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...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than 1 have words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions (indeed) to render service...

...find recorded in his journal : "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with...anxious and painful sensations than I have words to exprese, set out for New York, with the best disposition to render service to my country, in obedience...

...sensations than 1 have 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 of answering its expectations.' The journey of Washington to New York was throughout a...

...diary thus records his departure from home : — "April 16th, 1789. " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity...but with less hope of answering its expectations." His progress to New York was one continued triumph. The people poured forth to greet him and to heap...

...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...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...

...the seat of government. An entry in his diary, dated the 16th, says, " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations tlian I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to...

...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 felicity, and, with a mind oppressed ivith more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for Neiu Yorlc in company...

...he left Mount Vernon * to go to New York. In his Diary he wrote : " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...but with less hope of answering its expectations." This is not the common way of receiving the greatest honor that a nation has to' give. Washington knew...

...touching sadness pervades his whole conduct, and he inserts in his diary : "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to...