 | Benson John Lossing - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...but held up my hand as a signal that he was no more. ' 'Tis well,' said she, in the same voice ; ' all is now over. I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through.' " So sudden was the attack of the disease, and so rapidly did it run its course, that Washington died... | |
 | James Walter - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...speak, but held up my hand as a signal that he was no more. " Tis well," said she in the same voice. "All is now over: I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through.'" Congress was in session in Philadelphia at the moment of Washington's death. A written message was... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...came. Mrs. Washington was with him to the last, and sustained the blow with steady fortitude, saying, " I shall soon follow him. I have no more trials to pass through. ' ' The funeral took place on the 1 8th of December, with only such ceremonials as the immediate neighborhood... | |
 | James Walter - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...speak, but held up my hand as a signal that he was no more. " 'Tis well," said she in the same voice. "All is now over: I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through.'" Congress was in session in Philadelphia at the moment of Washington's death. A written message was... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...hand as a signal that he was no more. ' 'Tis well,' said she in the same voice ; ' all is over now. I shall soon follow him. I have no more trials to pass through.'" In this manner passed from earth this pure spirit, this patriot and sage, before he had completed his... | |
 | Lydia L. Gordon - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...said, " Is he gone ?" Thrice a mother, yet childless ; twice widowed, is it strange that she said : " 'Tis well, all is now over ; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through." She rose, looked at her dead, tottered to the door, turned, gave a last look and never, in the thirty... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...those last moments when he looked calmly into the eyes of the wife who said, as his soul went out, ''I shall soon follow him, I have no more trials to pass through," — -Washington's strong impulsive nature was steadily growing into a marvel of self-control, marvellous... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...was gone." " It is well," responded Mrs. Washington, with firm, unfaltering voice. "All is over now ; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through." Mr. Custis says, " Close to the couch of the sufferer resting her head upon that ancient Book with... | |
 | George G. Evans - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...speak, but held up my hand as a signal that he was no more. " 'Tis well," said she, in the same voice; "all is now over; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through." At the time of his decease Dr. Craik and myself were in the situation above mentioned. Mrs. Washington... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...speak, but held up my hand as a signal that he was no more. ' 'Tis well,' said she in the same voice. ' All is now over; I shall soon follow him; I have no more trials to pass through.'" 19 We add, from Mr. Lear's account, a few particulars concerning the funeral. The old family vault... | |
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Tis well,' said she in the same voice. ' All is now over ; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through. 
