 | E. Cecil - 1859 - 292 pagine
...and painful sensations 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...but with less hope of answering its expectations." This is not the common way of receiving the greatest honor that a nation has to' give. Washington knew... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pagine
...and painful sensations 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...but with less hope of answering its expectations." At the first stage of his journey a trial of his tenderest feelings awaited him in a public dinner... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 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... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 pagine
...set out for New York in campany 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... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pagine
...sensations, than I have words to express, set out for New York : with the best disposition to render sendee to my country, in obedience to its call ; but, with less hope of answering its expectations." By a beautiful act of piety, he premised his entrance, on the highest office in the world, by a visit... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pagine
...and painful sensations 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...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He must have felt, gravely as he bore his responsibilities, something of exulting emotion as he was... | |
 | François Guizot - 1863 - 162 pagine
...and painful sensations 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...hope of answering its expectations."* His journey was a triumphal procession; on the road, and in the towns, the whole population came out to meet him, with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 pagine
...and painful sensations 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...but with less hope of answering its expectations." At the first stage of his journey a trial of his tenderest feelings awaited him in a public dinner... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 604 pagine
...to express, set out for New 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... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pagine
...and painful sensations 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 hopes of answering its expectations." Washington was inaugurated President of the United States on... | |
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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... 
