 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 pages
...ambition, a touching sadness pervades his whole conduct, and he inserts 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. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 pages
...ambition, a touching sadness pervades his whole conduct, and he inserts in his diary : "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 in campany with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...was with a sad and a heavy heart. " About ten o'clock," he says, in his diary, for Apiil 16, 1789, " 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 sendee to my country, in obedience to its call ; but, with less... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pages
...Diary, of the 16th April, 1789, cited by Washington Irving, tell : " About ten o'clock," lie writes, " 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 488 pages
...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...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... | |
 | François Guizot - 1863 - 162 pages
...message at length arrived, and he commenced his journey. In his Diary, he writes; "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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 616 pages
...affectionate reverence of mankind. In his diary he wrote on the evening of the sixteenth: "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 Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...assume these new duties of toil and care, we find recorded in his journal, — ': 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 hopes... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1868 - 678 pages
...of his country, again entered upon the anxious career of public life. " About ten o'clock this day, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service to my country, in obedience... | |
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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... 
