 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
 | Charles Mackay - Democracy - 1885 - 462 pages
...Federal Government. An entry in his diary recorded the fact: " About ten o'clock this day (April 16th) I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
 | James Walter - Presidents - 1886 - 412 pages
...from Alexandria, and departed ; and that evening Washington wrote in his diary : " About ten o'clock 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 pages
...ovations that awaited Washington on his journey. That night he wrote in his diary: " About ten o'clock 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... | |
 | James Walter - Presidents - 1887 - 420 pages
...from Alexandria, and departed ; and that evening Washington wrote in his diary : " About ten o'clock 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - United States - 1887 - 666 pages
...for New York, the seat of government. An entry in his diary, dated the 16th, says, "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 disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...inexpressible sadness in this entry in his diary on the night of his departure : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...with more anxious and painful sensations than I have wordi to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...land. He left Mount Vernon on the 15th of April to assume the Presidency. He says in his diary : " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity." His journey was a triumphal procession. At every point he met companies of the citizens, who addressed... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1892 - 808 pages
...beginning of 1790, when Hamil1 On the day of his departure he wrote in his Diary : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 670 pages
...for New York, the seat of government. An entry in his diary, dated the i6th, says, "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 disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 416 pages
...diary at that day is this : " I bade adieu ^o Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, and set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to... | |
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