 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 644 pages
...have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote; "I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 654 pages
...have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote; "I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 658 pages
...have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote; "I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares,... | |
 | Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette - France - 1837 - 502 pages
...envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life,...since the middle of October by General Duportail. It would be very uninteresting to any but myself, to inform you, at this late hour, that the city of... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...commission was retained, and is deposited in the department of state of the United States. VOL. IX. 3 B" tiring within myself, and shall be able to view the...evacuated by the British forces on the 25th of November ; that the American troops took possession of it the same day, and delivered it over to the civil authority... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...paths of private life, with xv' a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am deter- 1784. mined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend,...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote; "I am just beginning to utter u, experience that ease and freedom from public... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...paths of private life, with xv" a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am deter- 1784. mined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend,...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote ; " I am just beginning to Letter to experience that ease and freedom from... | |
 | François Guizot - Presidents - 1840 - 262 pages
...with tranquil enjoyments. * * * I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers *." The feeling which Washington expressed when he wrote in this strain of language, was not the mere... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1840 - 576 pages
...have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General Knox he wrote ; " I am just beginning to experience that ease and freedom from public cares,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Generals - 1840 - 210 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, 1 am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." * Washington, in uttering such language, was not merely expressing a momentary feeling, the enjoyment... | |
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I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. 
