Martha WashingtonC. Scribner's sons, 1897 - 306 páginas |
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... looked upon the marriage of their children as a most desirable union of two fine estates and aristocratic families . Young Custis is said to have been averse to this marriage of convenience , and his cousin , who cherished a hopeless ...
... looked upon the marriage of their children as a most desirable union of two fine estates and aristocratic families . Young Custis is said to have been averse to this marriage of convenience , and his cousin , who cherished a hopeless ...
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... looked like a man , a proper man ; hey , Cully ? " " Neber see'd de like sir ! neber de likes of him , tho ' I've seen many in my day ; so tall , so straight ! and then he set a horse and rode with such an air ! Ah , sir , he was like ...
... looked like a man , a proper man ; hey , Cully ? " " Neber see'd de like sir ! neber de likes of him , tho ' I've seen many in my day ; so tall , so straight ! and then he set a horse and rode with such an air ! Ah , sir , he was like ...
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... looked well to the ways of her household , " and both seem to have delighted to " rise while it was yet night . " More than one contemporaneous chronicler has recorded that the master of Mount Vernon always rose betimes , usually at ...
... looked well to the ways of her household , " and both seem to have delighted to " rise while it was yet night . " More than one contemporaneous chronicler has recorded that the master of Mount Vernon always rose betimes , usually at ...
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... looked forward with more relish to rest than to festivities , was frowned upon by many patriots , who quoted a resolu- tion of Congress recommending the people to abstain from " vain amusments . " Joseph Reed and Colonel Benjamin ...
... looked forward with more relish to rest than to festivities , was frowned upon by many patriots , who quoted a resolu- tion of Congress recommending the people to abstain from " vain amusments . " Joseph Reed and Colonel Benjamin ...
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... looked forward , was frequently interrupted . States- men , diplomats , and soldiers , native and for- eign , inventors , merchants , sculptors , painters , 1 This small but comfortable house is still to be seen in Fredericksburg , with ...
... looked forward , was frequently interrupted . States- men , diplomats , and soldiers , native and for- eign , inventors , merchants , sculptors , painters , 1 This small but comfortable house is still to be seen in Fredericksburg , with ...
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agreeable Alexandria appeared army arrived attended aunt Bassett beautiful Bréhan brother called camp charming cheerful Church Colonel Washington Congress Dandridge Daniel Parke Custis daughter dear Fanny diary dined dinner door drawing-room dress elegant entertained Fairfax Fredericksburg gayety General's gentlemen George George Augustine Washington girl Governor guests hand happiness headquarters heart honor horses hospitality hour husband ington John Adams John Custis John Parke Custis journey Knox Lady Washington later Lear letter lived Lord Dunmore mansion marriage married Martha Washington Miss Custis Morris Morristown mother Mount Vernon Nelly Custis never niece o'clock officers Parke Custis patriotism Pennsylvania Philadelphia pleasant pleasure portrait President President's says scene seated seems servant silk sister soldiers soon Street Tench Tilghman thought tion town troops Virginia Wash Washington wrote wife William Williamsburg winter wish woman women York
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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.