About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service... History of the Life and Times of James Madison - Page 3by William Cabell Rives - 1868Full view - About this book
| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...feelings inspired by an occasion so affecting to his mind are thus described, " about ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...New York in company with Mr. Thompson, and colonel Humphries, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...WASHINGTON. [1789. entered upon public life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...public life, he left upon his private journal. • " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernou, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New ifork, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with I mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for NewYork, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with... | |
| Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...which it was always his custom to keep, he wrote at the close of that day» thus: " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New-York,—with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but... | |
| Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...journal, which it was his custom to keep, he wrote at the close of that day, thus: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...than I have words to express, set out for New York, — with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less... | |
| Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...Humphreys. In his diary, he has thus described his feelings upon this eventful occasion: "About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New Fork, in company with Mr. Thompson, and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1836 - 590 pages
...Accordingly on the 16th of April he commenced his journey. " About ten o'clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1836 - 590 pages
...Accordingly on the 16th of April he commenced his journey. " About ten o'clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience... | |
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