 | George Cochrane Hazelton - 1902 - 320 pages
...truly appreciated, and gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by that great example which I have so long had before me never...transmit to me ; and, in doing this. I need not, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. With grateful... | |
 | Frederick Loviad Harvey - 1902 - 162 pages
...his widow by the President of the United States. In her reply, acceding to the request, she said : " Taught by the great example which I have so long had...to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I need not, I cannot, say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty." The... | |
 | George Cochrane Hazelton - 1902 - 360 pages
...truly appreciated, and gratefully remembered, affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by that great example which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, 1 must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ;... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 566 pages
...transmitted to Mrs. Washington the resolutions of Congress, and of which his secretary was the bearer, that lady answered : " Taught by the great example...to transmit to me ; and in doing this I need not, I cannot, say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty." On receiving... | |
 | 1904 - 554 pages
...know that they were truly appreciated and greatfully remembered affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by the great example which I have so long 'had before me never to oppose my private withes to the public will — I must consent to the request made by congress — which you have the... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1906 - 462 pages
...Washington. Mrs. Washington gave her assent in the following letter : " Taught by the great example I have so long had before me never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request of Congress which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and, in doing this, I need not, I cannot,... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1908 - 654 pages
...know that they were truly appreciated and gratefully remembered affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught by the great example which I have so long had...private wishes to the public will, I must consent to therequest made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me; and in doing this I... | |
 | Louise Payson Latimer - 1924 - 404 pages
...of the remains of her husband. In answer to his letter the widow wrote: Taught by the great example I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private...to the public will, I must consent to the request of Congress which you had the goodness to transmit to me; and in doing this I need not — I can not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 862 pages
...monument to his memory. In her answer to the President of the United States on the subject, she says — "Taught by the great example which I have so long...never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, 1 must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ;... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - 1998 - 568 pages
...deeply disappointed. But she was as dutiful as ever. "Taught by the great example which I have so long before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will — ," she wrote, "I must consent to the request made by Congress . . . and in doing this I need not... | |
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Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and, in doing this, I need not, I... 
