 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...Vernon. His feelings on the occasion have been recorded. " About ten o'clock," he says, in his diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I Jiave words to express, set out for NewYork, with the best disposition to render service to my country... | |
 | William Dunlap - Dutch - 1840 - 560 pages
...government. In an entry made by himself in his diary, his feelings on the occasion are thus described : — " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...ceiving from Congress, through its special messenger, CHARLES THOMSON, notification of his election : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to...with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensa. tions than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. THOMSON and Colonel... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1847 - 582 pages
...Accordingly on the 16th of April he commenced his journey. " About ten o,clock," says he, in his Diary, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...government. Two days after receiving notice of his election, he " bade adieu," in the words of his diary, " to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind impressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York,... | |
 | Frederic Myers - Biography - 1848 - 252 pages
...entry in his Private Diary (which has been preserved) on the close of the day on which he left his home : ' About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon,...words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions (indeed) to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with little hope... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...honest seal." The feelings, with which ho entered upon publick life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensa tions than I have... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1852 - 734 pages
...occasion are indicated in the folfe lowing extract from his Diary, written on the day of his departure. " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount ^Vernon, to...'sensations than I have words to express, set out for 'fctew York b company with Mr. Thomson and Colone' 'Humphreys, with the best disposition to render... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 440 pages
...assume the administration of the new government. In his Diary he thus describes his departure : — " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I ha^e words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...claim to the 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...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 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 in company with Mr. 
