 With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.  Works - Page 28by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1861 - 502 pages
...benediction, he added with emotion, " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand,"...affected even to tears, grasped his hand and gave him a brothers embrace. In the same affectionate manner he took leave severally of the rest. Not a word was... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...Having drank, he added, " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged to you if each of you will come and take me by the hand." General Knox, being next, turned to him. Incapable of utterance, Washington grasped his hand, and embraced him. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...Having drank, he added, " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged to you if each of you will come and take me by the hand." General Knox, being next, turned to him. Incapable of utterance, Washington grasped his hand, and embraced him. The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...benediction, he added with emotion, " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but I shall be obliged oaches plied from Westminster to the Temple and from other stairs, to an the nearest, was the first to advance. Washington, affected even to tears, grasped his hand and gave... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - United States - 1864 - 504 pages
...have been glorious and honorable. I can not come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand." Gen. Knox stood nearest, and turned to grasp the hand of his commander. Their emotions were too deep... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...honorable." Having drank, he added, " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand." General Knox, being nearest, turned to him. Incapable of utterance, the Chief embraced him, with tears, and in the... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...have been glorious and honorable. I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand." All unaccustomed as Washington was to exhibit emotion, he was now quite overcome. Tears blinded his... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - United States - 1869 - 552 pages
...have been glorious and honorable. I can not come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand." Gen. Knox stood nearest, and turned to grasp the hand of his commander. Their emotions were too deep... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 938 pages
...Then he added, with emotion : " I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand." That stout old soldier, General Henry Knox, who had risen from a bookseller's counter in Boston to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 516 pages
...benediction, he added with emolion, "I cannot come to each of you to take my leave, but shall be obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand."...he took leave severally of the rest. Not a word was ppoken. The deep feeling and manly tenderness of these veterans in the parting moment could find no... | |
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