 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 594 páginas
...those confidential officers, who have attended your person to this affecting moment. " We join you in commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, beseeching him to dispose the hearts and minds of its citizens to improve the opportunity afforded... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 páginas
...concourse of spectators, and surrendered his commission. At the close of his address, he observed : — " Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...farewell to this august body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take leave of all the employments of public life." The... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 páginas
...submitted his resignation in respectful language, ending solemnly, "I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life,...the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping." Replying for Congress, its president, Thomas Mifflin, responded appropriately, expressing the gratitude... | |
 | 1895 - 582 páginas
...resigning his commission to the Congress : "I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests...dearest country to the protection of Almighty God. Washington's career as President is not reviewed here. The writer will be pardoned for expressing much... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1985 - 702 páginas
...his farewell remarks thus: Saving now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater 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.... | |
 | Jeffrey H. Richards, Professor of Theatre Jeffrey H Richards - 1991 - 368 páginas
...Annapolis, December 23, 1783, he returns once more to the trope by which he has measured his actions: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose order I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 páginas
...moment, as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage of Congress. I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my Official life,...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.... | |
 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - 1996 - 244 páginas
...becoming a respectable Nation, I resign with satisfaction the Appointment I accepted with diffidence." "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action . . . and take my leave of all the employments of public life." So it was that Washington's modesty, self-control... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - 2000 - 426 páginas
..."Having now finished the work assigned me," he tearfully declared, "I retire from the great theater 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."... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2001 - 228 páginas
...the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country. George choked back tears as he continued. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...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.... | |
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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... 
