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. George Washington - Seite 661895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Benson John Lossing - 1871 - 466 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1870 - 456 Seiten
...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.... | |
| 1871 - 784 Seiten
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1876 - 766 Seiten
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 Seiten
...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... | |
| George Sumner Weaver - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...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 —... | |
| Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 Seiten
...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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 390 Seiten
...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1887 - 666 Seiten
...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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 Seiten
...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... | |
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