 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 204 pages
...could bow off the stage with clear conscience to the applause of the world. He could do no more. Having finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great...so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take leave of all the employments of public life.13 SEEKING RETIREMENT 1784-1786 Except for the brief visit... | |
 | Peter F. Copeland, Coloring Books - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 52 pages
...the Treaty of Paris offtcially ended the Revolutionary War and America became an independent nation. bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body...so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington then departed for Virginia to rejoin his... | |
 | Peter F. Copeland, Coloring Books - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 52 pages
...stated. "Having now ftnished the work assigned me. I retire from the great theatre of Action; and hidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under...so long acted. I here offer my Commission. and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington then departed for Virginia to rejoin his... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - Presidents - 2004 - 68 pages
...most penetrating manner, "Having now finished the work assigned me I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to...so long acted I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life." So saying he drew out from his bosom his commission... | |
 | Mary L. Williamson - 2004 - 132 pages
...speech concluding thus: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to...so long acted, I here offer my commission and take my leave of 102 all the employments of public life." He then advanced and laid his commission in the... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 pages
...disaster — words that were written for the occasion by Thomas Jefferson. He concluded by saying, "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...so long acted, I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life." pers and Aaron Turner, who was to help him sort and... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - History - 2005 - 595 pages
...the hushed chamber that "having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to...so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employment of public life." McHenry was as overwrought with feeling as everyone... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2007 - 398 pages
..."HAVING NOW FINISHED the work assigned me," he tearfullv declared, "I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to...so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington withdrew the documents of his commission... | |
 | Mark McNeilly - History - 2008 - 224 pages
...resignation as the commander-in-chief of the army on December 23, 1783, in another emotional ceremony: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington then set out for Mount Vernon, reaching... | |
 | Carson Holloway - Political Science - 2008 - 244 pages
...(including constitutional reform), he resigned his commission before Congress in December of 1783: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life" (W 547-48). Jefferson soon wrote to him: "the moderation... | |
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I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. " Having now... 
