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... heart feel sad . Some decayed fig - trees and tangled shrubs and vines , with here and there a pine and cedar sapling , tell , with silent eloquence , of neglect and ruin , and that decay has laid its blighting fingers upon every work ...
... heart feel sad . Some decayed fig - trees and tangled shrubs and vines , with here and there a pine and cedar sapling , tell , with silent eloquence , of neglect and ruin , and that decay has laid its blighting fingers upon every work ...
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... heart , for already a friend had written to Lawrence , " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution . I find * * * * that one word against his going has more weight than ten for it . " She could not expose her ...
... heart , for already a friend had written to Lawrence , " I am afraid Mrs. Washington will not keep up to her first resolution . I find * * * * that one word against his going has more weight than ten for it . " She could not expose her ...
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... heart was tender and susceptible , and that bride's beautiful sister tried its constancy to his first love very sorely . To his young friend " Robin , " he wrote : " My residence is at present at his lordship's , where I might , was my ...
... heart was tender and susceptible , and that bride's beautiful sister tried its constancy to his first love very sorely . To his young friend " Robin , " he wrote : " My residence is at present at his lordship's , where I might , was my ...
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... heart , and his fellow aide - de - camp in Braddock's family , Roger Morris , bore away the prize . Mary Phillipse did not become the mistress of Mount Vernon , but reigned , as beau- teous queen , in a more stately mansion on the bank ...
... heart , and his fellow aide - de - camp in Braddock's family , Roger Morris , bore away the prize . Mary Phillipse did not become the mistress of Mount Vernon , but reigned , as beau- teous queen , in a more stately mansion on the bank ...
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... heart and overlooked his foibles . Mr. Weems died at Beaufort , South Carolina , in May , 1825 , at an advanced age . After the Revolution , for reasons not clearly seen , Washing- ton attended Christ Church , at Alexandria ( of which ...
... heart and overlooked his foibles . Mr. Weems died at Beaufort , South Carolina , in May , 1825 , at an advanced age . After the Revolution , for reasons not clearly seen , Washing- ton attended Christ Church , at Alexandria ( of which ...
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Popular passages
Page 335 - I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. I believed, from my first attack, that I should not survive it — my breath cannot last long.
Page 63 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 335 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.
Page 206 - I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm. I am sensible that I am embarking the voice of the people, and a good name of my own, on this voyage ; but what returns will be made for them, heaven alone can foretell. Integrity and firmness are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short, shall never forsake me,...
Page 148 - I feel now, however, as I conceive a wearied traveller must do, who, after treading many a painful step with a heavy burden on his shoulders, is eased of the latter, having reached the haven to which all the former were directed ; and from his house-top is looking back, and tracing with an eager eye the meanders by which he escaped the quicksands and mires which lay in his way ; and into which none but the all-powerful Guide and Dispenser of human events could have prevented his falling.
Page 47 - I might, was my heart disengaged, pass my time very pleasantly as there's a very agreeable young lady lives in the same house, (Colonel George Fairfax's wife's sister.) But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often, and unavoidably, being in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty; whereas, was I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure eliviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave...
Page 147 - 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 heartfelt satisfaction. 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.
Page 203 - Convention you represent for the Presidency of the United States, for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received.
Page 66 - I am now, I believe, fixed in this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to • find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.
Page 415 - ... or of any active employment,) to remain in the situation he now is, it shall be optional in him to do so; in either case, however, I allow him an annuity of thirty dollars, during his natural life, which shall be independent of the victuals and...