 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pagine
...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 to its...with less hope of answering its expectations."— ED. 344 MEETING OF CONVENTION. the names of Mifflin, M'Kean, Wilson, Lewis, Ross, Addison, Sitgreaves,... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pagine
...set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphries, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He was met on the road by a number of gentlemen of Alexandria, who had come to invite and escort him... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 582 pagine
...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 to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations." On his way to Alexandria, he was met by several gentlemen belonging to that city, where an entertainment... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pagine
...painful sensa tions 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...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He was met on the road by the gentlemen of Alex andria, and conducted to a publick dinner. From the... | |
 | Frederic Myers - 1848 - 252 pagine
...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions (indeed) to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with little hope of answering its expectations.' The journey of Washington to New York was throughout a... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 640 pagine
...company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render serVOL. i. 56 vice to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." The whole journey was a kind of triumphal procession. He had hardly left his own house, when he was... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 576 pagine
...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 to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations." On his way to Alexandria, he was met by several gentlemen belonging to that city, where an entertainment... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 516 pagine
...to express, set out foiNew York, with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He wished to proceed to New York in the most quiet manner, but the irrepressible enthusiasm of the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 638 pagine
...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 to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.5' The whole journey was a kind of triumphal procession. He had hardly left his own house,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1856 - 520 pagine
...set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its...his approach preceded him, and from every farm-house and shop and hamlet—from every valley and green mountain slope, the grateful delighted people came... | |
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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... 
