...WASHXXQTON'S CHILDREN. " 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." He was then seven-and-twenty years of age, and over six feet two inches in height, and admirably proportioned....

...WASHINGTON S CHILDREN. " 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." He was then seven-and-twenty years of age, and over six feet two inches in height, and admirably proportioned....

...friend, he says : " 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." His reputation and social qualities drew many visitors, and not a few illustrious guests, to Mount...

...Vernon. " I am now, I believe," he writes, " 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." Mount Vernon was his harbor of repose, where he repeatedly furled his sail, and fancied himself anchored...

...Vernon, he writes : " 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." This was no Utopian dream transiently indulged, amid the charms of novelty. It was a deliberate purpose...

...wrote to a friend: "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." His wife brought him over a hundred thousand dollars in money and property, and her two children —...

...Vernon. ' I am now,' he wrote, ' 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.' Washington Irving thus describes the favourite retreat of the great President : ' The mansion was beautifully...

...London he wrote, " I am now, I believe, fixed in this spot 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." Almost every manufactured article used in Virginia at that time was imported. The absurd and blindly...

...Vernon, he writes : " 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." This was no Utopian dream transiently indulged, amid the charms of novelty. Throughout the whole course...

...foreign travel. " I am now, I believe," he writes, " fixed here with an agreeable partner for life. I find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world." This was certainly true. Washington had no lack of resources in home life. He was fond of the detail...