The Home of Washington; Or, Mount Vernon and Its Associations, Historical, Biographical, and PictorialA.S. Hale & Company, 1870 - 446 頁 |
內容
| 23 | |
| 25 | |
| 45 | |
| 55 | |
| 59 | |
| 60 | |
| 72 | |
| 85 | |
| 211 | |
| 217 | |
| 223 | |
| 229 | |
| 235 | |
| 261 | |
| 270 | |
| 277 | |
| 93 | |
| 119 | |
| 129 | |
| 135 | |
| 153 | |
| 163 | |
| 181 | |
| 194 | |
| 199 | |
| 205 | |
| 301 | |
| 303 | |
| 318 | |
| 323 | |
| 346 | |
| 354 | |
| 365 | |
| 431 | |
| 436 | |
| 441 | |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
afterward Alexandria America Annapolis appeared appointed Arlington House arms army arrived battle beautiful Belvoir Braddock British Charles Charles Willson Peale coach Colonel command commander-in-chief Congress continental army Custis's death diary England English engraving Fairfax France French gentleman George Washington George Washington Parke governor guests Gunston Hall hand Henry honor Houdon House of Burgesses ington John Parke Custis lady Lafayette late Lawrence Lawrence Washington Lear letter liberty Lord loved mansion Mason master ment military morning mother Mount Vernon neat occasion officers painted patriot Peale Philadelphia plate POHICK CHURCH Pohick Creek portrait possession Potomac present President received retired returned Revolution Richard Henry Lee river says seat sent servant silver society soldier soon spring sword tion took Virginia Wash Washington Parke Custis wife Williamsburg words wrote York Yorktown young
熱門章節
第 63 頁 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
第 335 頁 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.
第 206 頁 - I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm. I am sensible that I am embarking the voice of the people, and a good name of my own, on this voyage ; but what returns will be made for them, heaven alone can foretell. Integrity and firmness are all I can promise. These, be the voyage long or short, shall never forsake me,...
第 47 頁 - I might, was my heart disengaged, pass my time very pleasantly as there's a very agreeable young lady lives in the same house, (Colonel George Fairfax's wife's sister.) But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often, and unavoidably, being in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty; whereas, was I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure eliviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave...
第 147 頁 - I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk, and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all ; and this, my dear friend, being the order of my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
第 203 頁 - Convention you represent for the Presidency of the United States, for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received.
第 66 頁 - 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.
第 173 頁 - The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have caused this Statue to be erected as a Monument of Affection and Gratitude to George Washington, who, uniting to the Endowments of the Hero the Virtues of the Patriot, and exerting both in establishing the Liberties of his Country, has rendered his Name dear to his Fellow Citizens, and given the World an immortal Example of true Glory.
第 413 頁 - To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriage with the dower negroes...
第 294 頁 - Washingtonian administration for eight years, it is a subject of the greatest astonishment, that a single individual should have cankered the principles of republicanism in an enlightened people, just emerged from the gulf of despotism, and should have carried his designs against the public liberty so far, as to have put in jeopardy its very existence. Such however are the facts, and with these staring us in the face, this day ought to be a jubilee in the United States.