 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 Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 546 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... | |
 | William H. Snowden - 1902 - 134 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 tn the wide and bustling world. . . . No estate in America is more pleasantly situated. Tn a high and... | |
 | William H. Snowden - 1904 - 128 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. . . . No estate in America is more pleasantly situated. In a high and healthy country; in a latitude... | |
 | William H. Snowden - 1904 - 132 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 w°rld. , . . No estate in America is more pleasantly situated. In a high and healthy country; in a... | |
 | Fairfax County (Va.). Board of Supervisors - 1907 - 106 Seiten
...wrote to a friend: "I am now, I believe, fixed iu this seat, with an agreeable partner for life, and I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide, bustling world." Washington's Sixteen-Sided Barn. With this sentiment dominant in his mind, Washington... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent, Charles Alphonso Smith, Lucian Lamar Knight, John Calvin Metcalf, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 522 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." So little do even those who are Heaven's choicest instruments for good to their fellow-men know of... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 540 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." So little do even those who are Heaven's choicest instruments for good to their fellow-men know of... | |
 | Cyrus Northrop - 1910 - 570 Seiten
...correspondent in London : "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.'' For fifteen years Washington lived the life of a country gentleman... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 460 Seiten
...the political affairs of the colony. 'Thus provided,' he wrote, ' with an agreeable partner for life, I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.' He had no children, but he carefully and lovingly tended the two children of his wife by her first... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 500 Seiten
...the political affairs of the colony. 'Thus provided,' he wrote, ' with an agreeable partner for life, I hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced in the wide and bustling world.' He had no children, but he carefully and lovingly tended the two children of his wife by her first... | |
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