 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...concerning the remains of her husband, she said : " Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the...consent to the request made by Congress, which you have the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 456 pages
...concerning the remains of her husband, she said : "Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the...consent to the request made by Congress, which you have the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...concerning the remains of her husband, she said : " Taught by the great example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the...consent to the request made by Congress, which you have the goodness to transmit to me ; and in doing this, I need not, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual... | |
 | De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1874 - 290 pages
...President, Mrs. Washington thus trans mitted her assent : "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 had the goodness to transmit to me; and in doing this I need not — I cannot... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1874 - 594 pages
...admiration and affection which I have so truly felt myself " I have also to thank you for the two Tracts which you have had the goodness to transmit to me, and in which I am happy to perceive a striking coincidence of opinion with some of those which I have my«elf... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1799 - 574 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...Congress, which you have had the goodness to transmit me, and in doing this, I need not say, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make... | |
 | Harvey W. Crew - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 886 pages
...example which I have so long had before me, never to oppose my private wishes to the public welfare, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which...goodness to transmit to me, and in doing this I need not, and I cannot, say what sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. "With grateful... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1896 - 658 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... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 652 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... | |
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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... 
