| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 էջ
..." About ten o'clock," he writes," I bade 18 adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...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... | |
| William Chambers - 1873 - 326 էջ
...adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and domestic felicity,' says he, in an entry in his diary ; ' and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best disposition to render service to my country, but with less hope of answering its expectations.'... | |
| Washington Irving - 1873 - 516 էջ
...out immediately for New York, the seat of government. An entry in his diary, dated the 1 6th, says, " 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... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 էջ
...16th, says, — "About ten o'clock, I hade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious...painful sensations than I have words to express, set out with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 688 էջ
...wrote in his diary: " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...than I have words to express, set out for New York with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 678 էջ
...the 12th, and reached Mount Vernon on the 14th of April. On the 10th, Washington wrote in his diary: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1882 - 740 էջ
...cent., and by the 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 to domestic felicity ; and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious anil painful sensations than I have... | |
| George William Curtis - 1883 - 54 էջ
...suffuses the awful summit of Mont Blanc, Washington writes in his diary, on the i6th of April, 1789: "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... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 էջ
...Presidency. — They are best known from an entry in his journal on the evening of the loth of April, 1789. '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... | |
| Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 էջ
...York, the temporary capital, on the morning of the i6th. That night Washington wrote in his diary, "at ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity." His route was literally strewn with flowers, and an the 3Oth of April he took the... | |
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