The Republican Court, Or, American Society in the Days of WashingtonAppleton, 1867 - 481 من الصفحات |
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... expressing a wish that she might some time see her at the Tuileries . The intimate friendships she formed during the Revolution were preserved after the peace , by a large correspondence with distinguished men . Lafayette appears to ...
... expressing a wish that she might some time see her at the Tuileries . The intimate friendships she formed during the Revolution were preserved after the peace , by a large correspondence with distinguished men . Lafayette appears to ...
الصفحة 49
... expression of his countenance indicates gentleness and kind- ness ; and he possesses both , yet is he also a man of inflexible firm ness and adherence to principle . He neither possesses nor affects the polish of city life ; but not a ...
... expression of his countenance indicates gentleness and kind- ness ; and he possesses both , yet is he also a man of inflexible firm ness and adherence to principle . He neither possesses nor affects the polish of city life ; but not a ...
الصفحة 51
... expressing what he thinks , and great firmness in maintaining it . Remarkable for his frankness , he neither knows nor wishes to know the arts of cunning , that ready weapon of little minds . No man is more accessible : easy and ...
... expressing what he thinks , and great firmness in maintaining it . Remarkable for his frankness , he neither knows nor wishes to know the arts of cunning , that ready weapon of little minds . No man is more accessible : easy and ...
الصفحة 89
... expressions of admiration . John Jay , the Secretary for Foreign Affairs , was forty - three years of age , and it would be difficult to find in history a character altogether more respectable . Mr. Madison was about thirty - seven ...
... expressions of admiration . John Jay , the Secretary for Foreign Affairs , was forty - three years of age , and it would be difficult to find in history a character altogether more respectable . Mr. Madison was about thirty - seven ...
الصفحة 105
... expressions of my sensibility for this specimen of American ingenuity , in which the exactitude of the proportions , the neatness of the workmanship , and the elegance of the decorations ( which make your present fit to be pre- served ...
... expressions of my sensibility for this specimen of American ingenuity , in which the exactitude of the proportions , the neatness of the workmanship , and the elegance of the decorations ( which make your present fit to be pre- served ...
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الصفحة 4 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
الصفحة 146 - ... of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude,...
الصفحة 7 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
الصفحة 7 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
الصفحة 145 - In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.
الصفحة 416 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.
الصفحة 145 - Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential...
الصفحة 145 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
الصفحة 127 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
الصفحة 107 - Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey Georgia Connecticut Massachusetts Maryland South Carolina New Hampshire Virginia New York North Carolina Rhode Island Vermont...