 I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness...  Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 438by Washington Irving - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." The... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president,...length I have the happiness to know it is a rising, not a setting sun." The great convention adjourned on the seventeenth of September, after directing... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 294 pages
...have "often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president,...happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun."* May the God of our fathers grant that no angry and portentous clouds may darken our political horizon,... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1887 - 60 pages
...the course of the session and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to the issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun." So rose, on... | |
 | Bunker Hill Monument Association - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1887 - 60 pages
...the course of the session and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to the issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun." So rose, on... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun." 48... | |
 | John Jay - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 80 pages
...the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at the sun behind the President, without being able to tell...or setting; at length I have the happiness to know that it is ar!s ing, and not a setting sun. On the 20th of July, 1788, Washington wrote to Trnmbull:... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...fears as to its issue, looked at that behind * "Life and Works of Franklin," by .lured Sparks, I., 519 the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now, at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.' "* The... | |
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