 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 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, until I sleep with my fathers." A little later he wrote to Madam Lafayette, saying : — " Freed from the clangor of arms and the bustle... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1860 - 558 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 until I sleep with my fathers." How simple yet self-sustained — how elevated in his own grand thoughts above all that this world... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 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 until I sleep with my fathers." How simple yet self- sustained — how elevated in his own grand thoughts above all that this world... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 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, until I sleep with my fathers." But, he was reckoning, without his host. The country, although free, was without a government. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and, this being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers. SLAVERY. The scheme which you1 propose, as a precedent to encourage the emancipation of the black people... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and, this being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with ray fathers. SLAVERY. The scheme which you1 propose, as a precedent to encourage the emancipation of... | |
 | François Guizot - United States - 1863 - 162 pages
...management, it is profitable 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."^ Washington., in uttering such language, was not merely expressing a momentary feeling, the enjoyment... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1857 - 488 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 until I sleep with my fathers." And Mibsequently. in a letter to the Marchioness de Lafayette, inviting her to America to see the country,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...countenance of his prince, in hopes of catching a gracious smile, — can have very little conception. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with...the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers." The great problem which now engrossed all minds was the consolidation of the thirteen States of America... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 604 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 until I sleep with my fathers." In the following August Lafayette revisited this country and passed two weeks with the Chief at Mount... | |
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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. 
