 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...shall present a letter to me from you. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it. With compliments and best wishes for Mrs. Fairfax, I am, my dear... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...shall present a letter to me from you. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it. With compliments and best wishes for Mrs. Fairfax, I am, my dear... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...shall present a letter to me from you. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it. With compliments and best wishes for Mrs. Fairfax, I am, my dear... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...shall present a letter to me from you. My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it. With compliments and best wishes for Mrs. Fairfax, I am, my dear... | |
 | 1886 - 890 pages
...unpretentious hospitality. " My manner of living is plain," he said, " and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed." To Lafayette he wrote that he was now about to solace himself with those tranquil enjoyments of which... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 550 pages
...upon him. "My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed." Some degree of economy was necessary, for his financial concerns had suffered during the war, and the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...him. " My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed." Some degree of economy was necessary, for his financial concerns had suffered during the war, and the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 568 pages
...upon him. "My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...of them, are always welcome. Those who expect more Avill be disappointed." Some degree of economy was necessary, for his financial concerns had suffered... | |
 | E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...show. " My manner of living," he wrote to a friend, " is plain ; and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed." He was not so rich as beforethe war, because the country was in so troubled a state, and because his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...him. " My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always...welcome; those who expect more will be disappointed." Some degree of economy was necessary, for his financial concerns had suffered during the war, and the... | |
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My manner of living," writes he to a friend, " is plain, and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready ; and such as will be content to partake of them, are always welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed. 
