Martha WashingtonC. Scribner's sons, 1897 - 306 páginas |
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... dined one day at Belvoir with the Fairfaxes , there were many other days when the Fair- faxes , Masons , Diggeses , Lewises and other neighbors dined at Mount Vernon . We can imagine Mrs. Washington's housewifely pride , when she ...
... dined one day at Belvoir with the Fairfaxes , there were many other days when the Fair- faxes , Masons , Diggeses , Lewises and other neighbors dined at Mount Vernon . We can imagine Mrs. Washington's housewifely pride , when she ...
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... dined with a neighbor , or drove to Alexandria with her family to attend a ball or the play . The pleasant social life at Mount Vernon , and even the active interest of the family in public events , were eclipsed for a time by the ...
... dined with a neighbor , or drove to Alexandria with her family to attend a ball or the play . The pleasant social life at Mount Vernon , and even the active interest of the family in public events , were eclipsed for a time by the ...
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... dined , as Mr. Daniel Greenleaf told Miss Quincy 1 The Craigie house was built by Colonel John Vassall in 1759 , and confiscated when he joined his Tory associates in Boston . The Provincial Congress furnished the house for the use of ...
... dined , as Mr. Daniel Greenleaf told Miss Quincy 1 The Craigie house was built by Colonel John Vassall in 1759 , and confiscated when he joined his Tory associates in Boston . The Provincial Congress furnished the house for the use of ...
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Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. that he and his son dined with General Wash- ington and his aids in a room on the right side of the front door . On the left side of the hall were spacious reception rooms . Questions of social etiquette ...
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. that he and his son dined with General Wash- ington and his aids in a room on the right side of the front door . On the left side of the hall were spacious reception rooms . Questions of social etiquette ...
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... out for New York . Mrs. Washington remained in Cambridge for several weeks . The day before her depart- ure Mrs. Warren dined with her , after which the two friends parted , not to meet again until 104 MARTHA WASHINGTON.
... out for New York . Mrs. Washington remained in Cambridge for several weeks . The day before her depart- ure Mrs. Warren dined with her , after which the two friends parted , not to meet again until 104 MARTHA WASHINGTON.
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Página 182 - For myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution...
Página 204 - I have also learned from experience, that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Página 34 - 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.
Página 262 - During the dinner much hilarity prevailed; but on the removal of the cloth it was put an end to by the President, certainly without design. Having filled his glass, he addressed the company, with a smile...
Página 282 - Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me; and in doing this I need not, I can not, say what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty.
Página 84 - I am now set down to write to you on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern, and this concern is greatly aggravated and increased, when I reflect upon the uneasiness I know it will give you. It has been determined in Congress, that the whole army raised for the...
Página 260 - In the chamber of the House of Representatives was a multitude as great as the space could contain, and I believe scarcely a dry eye but Washington's.
Página 78 - God took from Me a Daughter when June Roses were blooming — He has now given me another daughter, about her Age when Winter Winds are blowing, to warm my Heart again. I am as Happy as One so Afflicted and so Blest can be. Pray receive my Benediction and a Wish that You may long live the Loving Wife of my happy Son, and a Loving Daughter of " Your Affectionate Mother,
Página 68 - Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away. If any of this kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness...
Página 68 - ... idleness ; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed. What I mean by having no objection is, that it is my desire that it should be done. You are to consider, that neither myself nor wife is now in the way to do these good offices.