...painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York. - . with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations. 23 9 CREATING THE PRESIDENCY 1789—1793 Washington left Mount Vernon in good hands. Martha Washington's...

...Washington accepted the summons. "I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic [joy], and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful...than I have words to express, set out for New York," Washington told his journal as he started the trip to New York City, the country's temporary capital....

...have words to express, set out for New York,” he sighed in his diary, “with the best dispositions to render service to my country in obedience to its...but with less hope of answering its expectations.” Niartha Washington was even less happy. “I am truly sorry to tell that the General is gone to New...

...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...

...oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with best disposition to render service to my country in...but with less hope of answering its expectations." Notwithstanding, as he passed on he must have been animated by the spontaneous tributes of a people's...

...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 my country in obedience to ita call, but with less hope of answering its expectations." His journey was more like the triumphal...