 | Mary L. Williamson - 2004 - 132 páginas
...speech concluding thus: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to...acted, I here offer my commission and take my leave of 102 all the employments of public life." He then advanced and laid his commission in the president's... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 páginas
...Jefferson. He concluded by saying, "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell...take my leave of all the employments of public life." pers and Aaron Turner, who was to help him sort and arrange them. Peace had been won, but could it... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - 2005 - 595 páginas
...the hushed chamber that "having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action; and bidding an affectionate farewell to...offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employment of public life." McHenry was as overwrought with feeling as everyone else in the chamber.... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2007 - 398 páginas
..."HAVING NOW FINISHED the work assigned me," he tearfullv declared, "I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to...take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington withdrew the documents of his commission from his pocket and handed them to the president... | |
 | Carson Holloway - 2008 - 244 páginas
...before Congress in December of 1783: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell...take my leave of all the employments of public life" (W 547-48). Jefferson soon wrote to him: "the moderation & virtue of a single character has probably... | |
 | Mark McNeilly - 2008 - 224 páginas
...1783, in another emotional ceremony: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell...take my leave of all the employments of public life." Washington then set out for Mount Vernon, reaching it on New Year's Eve, with the intent of enjoying... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - 2007 - 116 páginas
...from the service of my country. . . . Having Jinished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body undei' whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission and take leave of all the employments... | |
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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... 
