| Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 sidor
...continue to animate the remotest ages. We join with you in commending the interests of our country to Almighty God, beseeching Him to dispose the hearts...respectable nation. And for you, we address to Him our warmest prayers, that a life so beloved may be fostered with all His care, that youi days may be as... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 sidor
...of your fellow-citizens, you retire from the great theatre of action; but the glory of your virtues will continue to animate remotest ages. We join you...them of becoming a happy and respectable nation." was right, for otherwise the achievement of independence would seem to have been attributed to the... | |
| George Bancroft - 1884 - 530 sidor
...of your fellow-citizens, you retire from the great theatre of action; but the glory of your virtues will continue to animate remotest ages. We join you...them of becoming a happy and respectable nation." No more pleasing words could have reached Washington than those which pledged congress to the reform... | |
| George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 sidor
...of your fellow-citizens, you retire from the great theatre of action ; but the glory of your virtues will continue to animate remotest ages. We join you...them of becoming a happy and respectable nation." No more pleasing words could have reached Washington than those which pledged congress to the reform... | |
| 1887 - 900 sidor
...the interests of those confidential officers who have attended your person to this affecting moment. We join you in commending the interests of our dearest...fostered with all his care ; that your days may be as happy as they have been illustrious ; and that he will finally give you that reward which this world... | |
| Elihu Samuel Riley - 1887 - 454 sidor
...the interests of those confidential officers who have attended your person to this affecting moment. "We join you in commending the interests of our dearest...respectable nation. And for you we address to Him our warmest prayers, that a life so beloved may be fostered with all his care ; that your days may be as... | |
| D. B. Wright - 1887 - 98 sidor
...of them to His holy keeping." To Jwhom the president of congress, in behalf of that body, replied, "We join you in commending the interests of our dearest...them of becoming a happy and respectable nation." Well might Mr. Baldwin say, in reference to the above, " Nothing in the valedictories of Moses or Joshua... | |
| Elihu Samuel Riley - 1887 - 408 sidor
...your person to this affecting moment. "We join you in commending the interests of our dearest conn try to the protection of Almighty God, beseeching him...respectable nation. And for you we address to Him our warmest prayers, that a life so beloved may be fostered with all his care ; that your days may be as... | |
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1888 - 878 sidor
...whose reply to the few words uttered by Washington were dignified and eloquent. "We join you," he said, "in commending the interests of our dearest country...citizens to improve the opportunity afforded them to become a happy and respectable nation. And for you we address to Him our earnest prayers that a... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - 1889 - 800 sidor
...the interests of those confidential officers who have attended your person to this affecting moment. We join you in commending the interests of our dearest...fostered with all his care; that your days may be happy as they have been illustrious; and that he will finally give you that reward which this world cannot... | |
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