The Home of Washington: Or, Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and PictorialVirtue & Yorston, 1870 - 446 Seiten |
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... March . Carey's was then the finest house in Alexandria , sur- rounded by a noble lawn that was shaded by lofty forest trees , and its gardens extending down a gentle slope to the shore of the Potomac . Now it stands within the city ...
... March . Carey's was then the finest house in Alexandria , sur- rounded by a noble lawn that was shaded by lofty forest trees , and its gardens extending down a gentle slope to the shore of the Potomac . Now it stands within the city ...
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... March , 1758 , when he was an invalid at home . In February , 1756 , we find him , accompanied by two aides , journeying to Boston , to confer with General Shirley con- cerning military rank in Virginia . Little did he then think that ...
... March , 1758 , when he was an invalid at home . In February , 1756 , we find him , accompanied by two aides , journeying to Boston , to confer with General Shirley con- cerning military rank in Virginia . Little did he then think that ...
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... march toward Fort du Quesne , he had been elected a delegate to the Virginia House of Burgesses . The story of Washington's love and courtship is simple , yet full of the elements of romance . No words can better tell that story than ...
... march toward Fort du Quesne , he had been elected a delegate to the Virginia House of Burgesses . The story of Washington's love and courtship is simple , yet full of the elements of romance . No words can better tell that story than ...
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... of the sentence on the next page , which was copied from his diary for March , 1771 . Thus minutely journalizing his agricultural proceedings , keeping his own 80 MOUNT VERNON He writes with a Gold Pen Keeps a Diary through Life.
... of the sentence on the next page , which was copied from his diary for March , 1771 . Thus minutely journalizing his agricultural proceedings , keeping his own 80 MOUNT VERNON He writes with a Gold Pen Keeps a Diary through Life.
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... MARCH , 1776. " Although excessively prudent , Washington was ever ready to strike a blow in the presence of greatest peril , when his judgment and inclination coalesced in recommending the per SUPREMO VILADSERTORI LIBERTATIS DVCI ...
... MARCH , 1776. " Although excessively prudent , Washington was ever ready to strike a blow in the presence of greatest peril , when his judgment and inclination coalesced in recommending the per SUPREMO VILADSERTORI LIBERTATIS DVCI ...
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Seite 147 - 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 heartfelt satisfaction. 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.
Seite 63 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Seite 335 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.
Seite 206 - I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm. I am sensible that I am embarking the voice of the people, and a good name of my own, on this voyage ; but what returns will be made for them, heaven alone can foretell. Integrity and firmness are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short, shall never forsake me,...
Seite 148 - I conceive a wearied traveller must do, who, after treading many a painful step with a heavy burden on his shoulders, is eased of the latter, having reached the haven to which all the former were directed ; and from his house-top is looking back, and tracing with an eager eye the meanders by which he escaped the quicksands and mires which lay in his way ; and into which none but the all-powerful Guide and Dispenser of human events could have prevented his falling.
Seite 47 - I might, was my heart disengaged, pass my time very pleasantly as there's a very agreeable young lady lives in the same house, (Colonel George Fairfax's wife's sister.) But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often, and unavoidably, being in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty; whereas, was I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure eliviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave...
Seite 203 - Convention you represent for the Presidency of the United States, for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received.
Seite 66 - I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to • find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.
Seite 142 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing.
Seite 149 - My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready ; and such as will be content to partake of them, are always welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed.