| John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...arnd"oin»ti. to spend the remainder of my davs in cultivatiner rations of l J - '•' public utility. tile affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." His numerous letters of that date evince the perfect contentment which accompanied him in his retirement.... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...grateful feelings of his heart on being relieved from the weight of his publick station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of publick care, and hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men,... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...grateful feelings of his heart on being relieved from the weight of his public station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." This sentiment was more fully expressed to the Marquis La Favette. " I have become a private citi/.en... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...grateful feelings of his heart on being relieved from the weight of his pnblick station. " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load of publick care, and hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men,... | |
| Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...them. In a letter to Governor Clinton, three days after his reaching Mount Vernon, he says: 'The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues.' In another to Lafayette, he thus unfolds the sound philosophy of his mind and benevolent emotions of... | |
| James Herring, James Barton Longacre - Portrait prints - 1834 - 396 pages
...appear in public life. " The scene is at length closed," said he, three days after his arrival there, "I feel myself eased of a load of public care, and...days in cultivating the affections of good men, and the practice of the domestic virtues." With a mind capable of the most enlarged views, he traced the... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends, and to wish you every felicity. Mrs. Washington... | |
| George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself cased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends, and to wish you every felicity. Mrs. Washington... | |
| John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...to Governor Clinton, written only three days after his arrival at Mount Vernon, he says, " The scene is at length closed. I feel myself eased of a load...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." " At length my dear marquis," said he to his noble and highly valued friend, Lafayette, " I have become... | |
| George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...under your administration. The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number of my friends, and to wish you every felicity. Mrs. Washington... | |
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