 | 698 pages
...ajfcflicnatefarewelfo thin mguft body, un * tier whofe order I have fo long afled. I here offer my corrmiffion, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. He then advanced, and delivered (0 ttje Prefident his comrrrffion, with .ยป o'py of his sddrefs, and having refumed hit place)... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1800 - 232 pages
...bidding an affectionate farewel to this august body, under whose orders I have long a&ed, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." TO WHICH THE PRESIDENT RETURNED THE FOLLOWING ANSWER : " .THE United States in Congress assembled,... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...bidding an affe&ionate fareWell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." So he wished and naturally thought, but he had not yet finished all the work which God had assigned... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - America - 1804 - 432 pages
...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." To this the President returned an appropriate answer. CHA?. AMEUICA. 285 CHAP. XI. Disputes in different... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...bidding an affectionate farewell (o this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." To which the president made a suitable reply. The mingled emotions that agitated the minds of the spectators... | |
 | John Marshall - Generals - 1805 - 666 pages
...an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." CHAP, xi. After advancing to the chair, and delivering 1783. his commission to the president, he returned... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1808 - 604 pages
...an affectionate farewel to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life." Having advanced to the chair and delivered the President his commission, he received from him the following... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 262 pages
...bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public. life." To this the President returned the following answer : " SIR, '* The United States, in Congress assembled,... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...an affectionate farewel to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. Dec. 23, 1783. G. WASHINGTON. XIII. SINGULAR INSTANCE of PATRIOTISM. 1.T7DWARD the third, king of England,... | |
 | David Ramsay - Generals - 1814 - 274 pages
...an affection. ate farewell to tins angu-st body, under whose orders 1 have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public lite."* * The commission now returned to Congress, had been received from them shortly after the commencement... | |
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Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments... 
