 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
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 670 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... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1890 - 550 Seiten
...Washington wrote: " 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." Rather a sober reflection for a young man of twenty-eight years, we would think; but he was a man and... | |
 | 1890 - 516 Seiten
...Washington wrote: "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." Rather a sober reflection for a young man of twenty-eight years, we would think; but he was a man and... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1890 - 520 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." From a child, Mrs. Washington had enjoyed the luxuries and society that wealth multiplies. Her own... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1893 - 668 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... | |
 | 1894 - 638 Seiten
...after his marriage : " 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." The " Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union " was the first patriotic organization of women... | |
 | George Washington - 1894 - 510 Seiten
...AFTER HIS MARRIAGE. I am now, I believe, fixed at this seat, with an agreeable partner * for life ; and I hope to find more happiness in retirement, than I ever experienced amidst the wide and bustling world. 1759. * He married, on the 6th of January, 1759, Mrs. Martha Custis,... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1895 - 224 Seiten
...Washington was surprised, but feeling that he ought to THE OLD CAPITOL AT Wtl.LIAMSBURG IN VIRGINIA. ( Where the House of Burgesses met. ) say something,...indoors and out. He was fond of riding and hunting, and \ve hear of his splendid horses — Magnolia, the Arabian, and Blueskin, his favorite iron-gray, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 668 Seiten
...Vemon, 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 Seiten
...marriage, 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... | |
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