 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...on the growing strength of our new government under your administration. For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but, though those...; but, in whatever state of existence I am placed in hereafter, if I retain any memory of what has passed here, I shall with it retain the esteem, respect,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 578 pages
...on the growing strength of our new government under your administration. For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago; but, though those...life ; but in whatever state of existence I am placed in hereafter, if I retain any memory of what has passed here, I shall with it retain the esteem, respect,... | |
 | 1840 - 480 pages
...our new government under your administration. For my own personal ease, I should have died two yearn ago; but, though those years have been spent in excruciating...that I have lived them, since they have brought me to my present situation. I am now finishing my eighty-fourth year, and probably with it my career in this... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pages
...Washington's administration. Writing to the first President in 1789, he said : ' For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but though those...they have brought me to see our present situation.' " Of Grouverneur Morris : — " In his political opinions, he probably went farther in opposition to... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 590 pages
...ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured, that, so •DR. FRANKLIN'S LETTER. " Philadelphia, 16 September, 1789. "DEAR...pleased that I have lived them, since they have brought mo to see our present situation. I am now finishing my eighty-fourth year, and probably with it my... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...on the growing strength of our new government under your administration. For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but, though those...; but, in whatever state of existence I am placed in hereafter, if I retain any memory of what has passed here, I shall with it retain the esteem, respect,... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...writes in a letter to General Washington, in 1789, " I should have died two years ago, but though these years have been spent in excruciating pain, I am pleased...they have brought me to see our present situation." The stone, from which he suffered, confined him almost entirely to his bed during the last year of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...bed. In the letter to President Washington already quoted from, he says : " For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago; but, though those years have been passed in excruciating pain, I am pleased that I have lived them, since they have brought me to see... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 564 pages
...Washington's administration. Writing to the first President in 1789, he said: " For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but though those...they have brought me to see our present situation." 1 'often and often, in the course of was rising or setting ; but now, at the session, and the vicissitude... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1854 - 564 pages
...Washington's administration. Writing to the first President in 1789, he said: "For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but though those...them, since they have brought me to see our present situation."1 . ' often and often, in the course of was rising or setting ; but now, at the session,... | |
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For my own personal ease, I should have died two years ago ; but, though those years have been spent in excruciating pain, I am pleased that I have lived them, since they have brought me to see our present situation. 
