 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...sensations 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 hope of answering its expectations." He was met on the road by. the gentlemen of Alexandria, and conducted to a publick dinner. From the... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...York in company with Mr. Thompson, and colonel Humphries, with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." Mark«of By a number of gentlemen residing in Alexan' dria, he was received on the road, and escorted... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...sensations 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 hope of answering its expectations." He was met on the road by the gentlemen of Alexandria, and conducted to a public dinner. From the numerous... | |
 | 1829 - 290 pages
...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 hope of answering its expectations." His neighbours, and the citizens of Alexandria assembled, and met him on the road • to attend him... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 pages
...Fork, in company with Mr. Thompson, and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service to my country, in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." With every disposition to appreciate the merit of the sacrifice which Washington, on this occasion,... | |
 | George Washington - 1836 - 574 pages
...York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." On his way to Alexandria, he was met by several gentlemen belonging to that city, where an entertainment... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 590 pages
...York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." On his way to Alexandria, he was met by several gentlemen belonging to that city, where an entertainment... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1836 - 590 pages
...York in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." On his way to Alexandria, he was met by several gentlemen belonging to that city, where an entertainment... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 pages
...York in company with Mr. Thompson, and Colonel Humphries, with the best dispositions to render wrvice to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of anwering its expectations." He was met by a number of gentlemen residing in Alexandria, and escorted... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 pages
...company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render serVOL. i. 56 vice to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." The whole journey was a kind of triumphal procession. He had hardly left his own house, when he was... | |
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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 to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service... 
