 | Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted,...take my leave of all the employments of public life." He then gave his commission to the President, who, when he had received it, answered him in the name... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1829 - 234 pages
...assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august' body, under whose orders I have so long acted,...commission, and take my leave of all the employments of publick life. G. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23, 1783. SPEECH or A SCYTHIAN AMBASSADOR TO ALEXANDER. W HEN the... | |
 | Citizen of the United States - United States - 1829 - 504 pages
...theatre of action ; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." When accepting his commission, congress, through their president, expressed in glowing language to... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." This address being ended, General Washington advanced and delivered his commission into the hands »f... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate address to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted,...take my leave -of all the employments of public life. " To this address, Congress returned an appropriate reply, couched in the spirit ofgratulation, praise... | |
 | Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders 1 nave so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. G. WASHINGTON. Dec. 23, 1783. LESSON IX. The Hurricane. — AUDUBoN. 1. I HAD left Shawneetown, situated... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 pages
...theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Sec. 108. TTpon accepting his commission, con gress, through their president, expressed in glowing... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...theatre of action ; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employment of public life." 108. Upon accepting his commission, congress, through their president,... | |
 | United States - 1834 - 426 pages
...theatre of action; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. The. Answer vf General Mifflin, the President of Congress, to the foregoing speech. SIR—The United... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1835 - 270 pages
...assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action; and, bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted,...take my leave of all the employments of public life. G. WASHINGTON. December 23, 1783. CHAPTER XXI. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF PATRIOTISM. 1. Edward the third,... | |
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Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments... 
