...touching sadness pervades his whole conduct, and he inserts in his diary : "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity...than I have words to express, set out for New York in campany with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to...

...touching sadness pervades his whole conduct, and he inserts in his diary : "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity...than I have words to express, set out for New York in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to...

...and a heavy heart. " About ten o'clock," he says, in his diary, for Apiil 16, 1789, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...for New York : with the best disposition to render sendee to my country, in obedience to its call ; but, with less hope of answering its expectations."...

...16th April, 1789, cited by Washington Irving, tell : " About ten o'clock," lie writes, " I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life and to domestic felicity...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He must have felt, gravely as he bore his responsibilities, something of exulting emotion as he was...

...length arrived, and he commenced his journey. In his Diary, he writes; "About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...but with less hope of answering its expectations."* His journey was a triumphal procession; on the road, and in the towns, the whole population came out...

...new duties of toil and care, we find recorded in his journal, — ': About ten o'clock, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...my country in obedience to its call, but with less hopes of answering its expectations." Washington was inaugurated President of the United States on...

...of mankind. In his diary he wrote on the evening of the sixteenth: "About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...have words to express, set out for New York, with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience...

...sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York, with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my...but with less hope of answering its expectations." He wished to proceed to New York in the most quiet manner, but the irrepressible enthusiasm of the...

...country, again entered upon the anxious career of public life. " About ten o'clock this day, I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thompson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best dispositions to render service to...

...Alexandria, and departed ; and that evening Washington wrote in his diary : " About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic...than I have words to express, set out for New York, in company with Mr. Thomson and Colonel Humphreys, with the best disposition to render service to my...