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" ... every day the increasing- weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I... "
Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the ... - Page 578
by John Frost - 1847 - 588 pages
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1972 - 1996 pages
...more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. Source : Richardson's messages and Papers of the Présidents. Vol. I pp. ¿05-6. 1897 [JS1 .B97] 2....
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A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the ...

Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. 6. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my political life,...
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On Faith and Free Government

Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States

George Washington - 1998 - 40 pages
...more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. [Si In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my...
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The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It, how to Deliver it

Richard Dowis - Business & Economics - 2000 - 292 pages
...more ana more that the shade or retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...circumstances have given peculiar value to my services they were ternporary, I have the consolation to helieve, that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States

Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that/while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it....
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American Presidents: Farewell Messages to the Nation, 1796-2001

Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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Heir to the Fathers: John Quincy Adams and the Spirit of Constitutional ...

Gary V. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. George Washington, "Farewell Address," in A Compilation of the Messages and Papers o/the Presidents,...
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Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the West

Lamin Sanneh - Religion - 2003 - 154 pages
...megalomania. "I have the consolation to believe," Washington said in his farewell address in 1796, "that while choice and prudence invite me to quit...political scene, patriotism does not forbid it." In the French case, a hard-edged secularism emerged and acquired a life of its own, with state jurisdiction...
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