 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...public will, I must consent to the request made by congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit me, and in doing this, I need not, I cannot say, what...individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. WITH grateful acknowledgment and unfeigned thanks for the personal respect, and evidences of condolence,... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 358 pages
...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...individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. " With grateful acknowledgment and unfeigned thanks for the personal respeft and evidences of condolence... | |
 | John Marshall - 1807 - 840 pages
...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,...individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty." The monument however has not been erected. That the great events of the political as well as military life... | |
 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1807 - 486 pages
...private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by congress, which you have had ihe goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this, I need...what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a selnse of public duty." The honours paid to Washington, at the seat of government, were but a small... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1807 - 576 pages
...request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, J need not, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of duty." Information of the death of General WASHING*. TON was,throughout the United States,accompanied... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 584 pages
...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,...sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of duty." MM 2 Information of the death of Gfeneral Washington was, throughout the United States, accompanied... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...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 — leannot say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. " With grateful... | |
 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...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,...sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of pub • lie duty." The honours paid to Washington at the seat of government, were but a small part... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1829 - 998 pages
...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,...individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. With grateful acknowledgments and unfeigned thanks for the personal respect and evidences of condolence... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Conyres-s w. ich you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not, I cannot sny, what a sacrifice of individual feeliug 1 make to a sense of public duty." Charleslon and Virginia... | |
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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,... 
