 As for myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going...  Works - Page 112by Washington Irving - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 880 pages
...unattractive to Washington. When the formality of election was over, he went to the seat of government with "feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." He bade adieu to private life and to domestic felicity, going to his new duties with resolution,... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 pages
...he was about leaving Mount Vernon to assume the office, he wrote to Knox : "In confidence I tell you that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not tmlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." These were the feelings, and this... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 430 pages
...unattractive to Washington. When the formality of election was over, he went to the seat of government with "feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." He bade adieu to private life and to domestic felicity, going to his new duties with resolution,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...except in his modest and unambitious heart. " My movements to the chair of government," he said, " will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of...his execution. So unwilling am I, in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 456 pages
...unambitious heart. " My movements to the chair of government," he said, " will be accompanied with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going...his execution, so unwilling am I, in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties without... | |
 | Owen Wister - Presidents - 1907 - 314 pages
...Seven I tell you . . . that my movement to the ,. chair of Government will be accompanied Washington ' by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution." Vine and fig-tree were left behind in this spirit, in which there is nowhere to be found any sign of... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - 1910 - 310 pages
...service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." " My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied...culprit who is going to the place of his execution," he wrote General Knox, " so unwilling am I ... to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1910 - 394 pages
...and unambitious heart. "My movements to the chair of government," he said, "will be accompanied with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going...his execution. So unwilling am I, in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without... | |
 | Charles Lester Barstow - United States - 1912 - 234 pages
...private citizen on my farm." " My movements to the chair of government," he wrote to Henry Knox, " will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution. . . . Integrity and firmness are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 822 pages
...unattractive to Washington. When the formality of election was over, he went to the scat of government with "feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." He bade adieu to private life and to domestic felicity, going to his new duties with resolution,... | |
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