 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 574 pages
...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... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 564 pages
...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...remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of (1509) good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues." "At length, my dear marquis," said he... | |
 | Ida Ashworth Taylor - Biography - 1904 - 302 pages
...content. 'The scene is at last closed,' he wrote, ' I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...and in the practice of the domestic virtues.' The hope was not realised ; the infant republic could not dispense with the services of the statesman to... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1905 - 594 pages
...closed," said he in a letter to Governor Clinton ; " I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of jrood men, and in the prao tice of the domestic virtues." CHAPTER XXXIV. WASHINGTON AT MOUNT VERNON.... | |
 | Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 pages
...country might live." Washington hastened to Mt. Vernon. He said he hoped to spend the remainder of his days in cultivating the affections of good men and in the practice of domestic virtues. From his peaceful home at Mt. Vernon, where he enjoyed his domestic duties, seldom... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 620 pages
...closed," said he in a letter to Governor Clinton ; " I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the prao tice of the domestic virtues." CHAPTER XXXIV. WASHINGTON AT MOUNT VERNON. — A SOLDIER'S REPOSE.... | |
 | Cyrus Northrop - Education - 1910 - 570 pages
...records his feelings: "The scene is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public «are. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating...men and in the practice of the domestic virtues." But he was uot permitted to enjoy his well-earned rest very long. His country had further need of his... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1910 - 162 pages
...preservation of his home. He expressed the hope that he might be allowed to "spend the remainder of his days in cultivating the affections of good men and in the practice of domestic virtues," and his letters to his old comrades in arms glow with the happiness of being once... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1911 - 848 pages
...to Governor Clinton : "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...good men and in the practice of the domestic virtues. " That the hope was sincere we may well suppose, but that it was more than a hope may be doubted. It... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1842 - 700 pages
...journey. At length, however, he found his long-coveted retirement. " The scene," he writes, " is at last closed. I feel myself eased of a load of public care,...men and in the practice of the domestic virtues." In a letter to Lafayette he recurs to the subject in still more touching language : " On the twenty-third... | |
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I feel myself eased of a load of public care. I hope to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating the affections of good men, and in the practice of the domestic virtues. 
