 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...which Mrs. Washington consented, saying that, " taught by the great example which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the...will, I must consent to the request made by Congress." Judge Marshall, in his " Life of Washington," says, that the Resolution, although it passed unanimously,... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...secretary was the bearer, that lady answered, " taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the...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." The monument... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1848 - 472 pages
...great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the publick will, I must consent to the request made by Congress,...sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of duty." Information of the death of General WASHINGTON was, throughout the United States, accompanied... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 824 pages
...remembered affords no inconsiderable consolation. Taught, by that 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 C6ngref>s, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and, in doing this, I need not, I cannot,... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...remembered affords no inconsiderable consolation. " Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the...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. " With grateful... | |
 | JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 pages
...Washington gave her assent in the following letter : "Taught by the great example I have so long had before me never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request of Congress which you have had the goodness to transmit to me; and, in doing this, I need not, I cannot,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the publick will, I must consent to the request mace by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit...sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of duty." Information of the death of General WASHINGTON was, throughout the United States, accompanied... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 pages
...Mrs. Washington, to which she thus replied. " 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 censent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and in... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...have wo long had befor* me, never to oppose my private wishei to the publick will, I must ccnsentto the request made by Congress which you have had the...transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not, I cannot •ay, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a •ense of duty." Information of the death... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...consolation. Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wiuhes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which yon have had the goodness to transmit to me ; and, in doing this, I need not, I cannot, say what a... | |
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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... 
