 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 a heartfelt satisfaction.  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 971841Full view - About this book
 | James Walter - 1887 - 418 pages
...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." Augustine Washington died in the spring of 1743, when his son George was eleven years of age, and by... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 414 pages
...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." In these hopes Washington was to be disappointed. " All the world is touched by his republican virtues,"... | |
 | Lydia Hoyt Farmer - 1888 - 622 pages
...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." Again La Fayette turned his face toward the New Land of Liberty. He arrived in New York in August,... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...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...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." Living quietly on his estate, he was more than busy. Besides the minute details of his affairs, there... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 pages
...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...gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers.1 The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the better I am pleased with them ; insomuch... | |
 | La Fayette Wilbur - 1902 - 420 pages
...Envious of more, 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." When Lafayette came he spent twelve blissful days with Washington at Mount Vernon. At Annapolis the... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 564 pages
...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." But a mind accustomed to labor for a nation's welfare does not immediately divest itself of ancient... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 594 pages
...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." And subsequently, in a letter to the Marchioness de Lafayette, inviting her to America to see the country,... | |
 | Charles Woodcock-Savage - 1906 - 356 pages
...determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I shall move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers." This is certainly a noble letter, and does honor to the head and heart of its author. The Marquis told... | |
 | Robert Matteson Johnston - 1907 - 428 pages
...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...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." This pious wish, however, could not be fulfilled. In 1789 Washington was elected first President of... | |
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