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History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York ... - Page 228
by William Dunlap - 1840 - 282 pages
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An Essay on the Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...honest zeal." The feelings, with which he entered upon publick life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less...
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The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 5

John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...contemporaneous entry made by himself in his diary, the feelings inspired by an occasion so affecting to his mind are thus described, " about ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have...
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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...private journal. • " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernou, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New ifork, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with...
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Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army Through ...

Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...which be 366 llFE OF WASHINGTON. [1789. entered upon public life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words...
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The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...honest zeal." The feelings, with which he entered upon publick life, he left upon his private journal. " About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to...private life, and to domestick felicity ; and with I mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for...
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The Life of George Washington

Presidents - 1829 - 290 pages
...in the journal, which it was always his custom to keep, he wrote at the close of that day» thus: " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words...
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The Life of George Washington

Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...of that day, thus: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious...than I have words to express, set out for New York, — with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less...
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The Lives of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson: With a Parallel ...

Stephen Simpson - Presidents - 1833 - 408 pages
...and Colonel Humphreys. In his diary, he has thus described his feelings upon this eventful occasion: "About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have...
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Exemplary and Instructive Biography: For the Study of Youth

Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and domestic felicity," says he, in an entry in his diary ; " and, with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful...than I have words to express, set out for New York, with the best disposition to render service to my country, but with less hope of answering its expectations."...
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 2

John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...thus described, " about ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations wan I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson, and Colonel Humphries,...
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