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 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 568 pages
...retire," added he, " from the theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...left Annapolis, and hastened to his beloved Mount Vernori, where he arrived the same day, on Christmas-eve, in a frame of mind suited to enjoy the sacred... | |
 | 1886 - 890 pages
...retire," said Mifflin, " fron> the theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...; it will continue to animate remotest ages." The next morning Wnshington hurried away to spend Christmas at his pleasant home at Mount Vernon, which,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Presidents - 1857 - 408 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens—but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command, it will continue to animate remotest ages. u We feel with you our obligations to the army in general, and will particularly charge ourselves with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...retire," added he, " from the theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens ; but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...it will continue to animate remotest ages." " The scene is at last closed," said he, in a letter to Governor Clinton; " I feel myself eased of a load... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 600 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command ; it will continue to animate remotest ages." This duty performed, Washington repaired, unattended, to Mount Vernon. " He was, perhaps, the only... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 604 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command ; it will continue to animate remotest ages." without having drawn upon himself any deserved censure," is the just tribute of a companion in arms... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1859 - 602 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action, with the blessings of your fellow-citizens, but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command ; it will continue to animate remotest ages." This duty performed, Washington repaired, unattended, to Mount Vernon. " He was, perhaps, the only... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens : but the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command, it will continue to animate remotest ages. We feel with you our obligations to the army in general, and will particularly charge ourselves with... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...oppression, you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens. But the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your...command ; it will continue to animate remotest ages. We feel with you our obligations to the army in general, and will particularly charge ourselves with... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - Generals - 1860 - 670 pages
...— you retire from the great theatre of action with the blessings of your fellow-citizens. But the glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command ; it will continne to animate remotest ages." The same exact and economical distribution of time, the same methodical... | |
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