 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...private life with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." — Washington's Life, vol. v, p. 2. Dr. Chambers, in speaking of Queen Charlotte's death, uses these... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1853 - 752 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." To General... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heart-felt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, behig the order of my march, I will move down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." But... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...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...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." Mr. MIKIHILL tlnu finishes this beautiful picture.— ED. For several months after reaching Mount Vernon,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 516 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my...the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers." In the following August Lafayette revisited this country and passed two weeks with the Chief at Mount... | |
 | Agriculture - 1855 - 632 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." The Mount Vernon estates consisted of five farms — Mansion House Farm ; Union Farm ; Dogue Run Farm... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - History - 1855 - 440 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with a heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all; and this, my...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." Acting in the spirit of these words, he applied himself to the improvement of his estate, — reduced... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - France - 1855 - 400 pages
...solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life, with heart-felt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my...the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." This invitation Lafayette could not resist, It was attended also with a polite request that the Marchioness... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heart-felt 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 down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." But delighted as ho was with his domestick... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 pages
...tread the paths of private life with heart-felt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to bo pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I will move down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers." But delighted as ho was with his domestick... | |
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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... 
