 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 606 pages
...general. - 1 hope the utmost politeness and respect will be shown to these officers on their arrival. — There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington. A gentleman of one of the 6rst fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and friends, sacrificing... | |
 | James Grahame - 1845 - 536 pages
...to me " — thus John Adams wrote at the time to his friend Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts — " in the conduct of Washington. A gentleman of one of...his country. His views are noble and disinterested." " Washington," said General Henry Lee, on learning his death (and all America reechoed the declaration),... | |
 | George Washington - 1852 - 464 pages
...and all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war displayed :—no powder burned, however. " There is something charming to me in the conduct of...the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his On the 2d of July, General Washington arrived in Cambridge, where his head-quarters were established,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 pages
...all the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war displayed : — no powder burned, however. " There is something charming to me in the conduct of...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of the country. His views are noble and disinterested. He declared, when accepting the mighty trust, that... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 86 pages
...that unfeigned modesty, that noble humility, which entered so thoroughly into this great man's nature. "There is something charming to me in the conduct...Washington, a gentleman of one of the first fortunes on the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and friends, sacrificing his ease, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1860 - 492 pages
...desire." " There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes Adams to a friend; " a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the...family and friends, sacrificing his ease, and hazarding '=£• * the cause of his country. His views are noble and disi.nieres.-«i He declared, when he accepted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pages
...unquestionably the greatest man of them all." " There is something charming to me," said John Adams, " in the conduct of Washington, — a gentleman of one...his country. His views are noble and disinterested." "On the whole," said Jefferson, "it may be truly said that never did nature and fortune combine more... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 564 pages
...desire." " There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes Adams to a friend; " a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the...retirement, his family and friends, sacrificing his case, and hazarding all, in the cause of his country. His views are noble and disinterested. He declared,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 616 pages
...desire." " There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington," writes Adams to a friend ; " a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, OTBER APPOINTMENTS. 483 his family and friends, sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all, in the cause... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 620 pages
...desire." " There is something charming to me in the conduct of Washington,'' writes Adams to a friend ; " a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement. OTHER APPOINTMENTS. 483 his family and friends, sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all, in the cause... | |
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Washington," writes Adams to a friend ; " a gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent, leaving his delicious retirement, his family and his friends, sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. His views are noble... 
