| James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 250 páginas
...indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take leave of all the employments of public life." He... | |
| Yale University. Art Gallery, John Trumbull - 1835 - 50 páginas
...indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have... | |
| Noah Webster - 1835 - 270 páginas
...duty, to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping. 7. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of action; and, bidding... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - 1836 - 530 páginas
...duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...have long acted, I here offer my commission, and take leave of all the employments of public life." This address being ended, Genera! Washington advanced,... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 páginas
...indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...the superintendence of them to His holy keeping." It was as if spoken on the morrow of the day upon which he accepted his commission : the same diffidence,... | |
| John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 páginas
...duty to close this last solemn act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping." Replying for Congress, its president, Thomas Mifflin, responded appropriately, expressing the gratitude... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1985 - 694 páginas
...his farewell remarks thus: Saving now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater 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 of public life.... | |
| Jeffrey H. Richards, Professor of Theatre Jeffrey H Richards - 1991 - 368 páginas
...Annapolis, December 23, 1783, he returns once more to the trope by which he has measured his actions: "Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire...Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose order I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 páginas
...duty to close this last solemn act of my Official life, by commending the Interests of our dearest Country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...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.... | |
| William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my Official life by commending the Interest of our dearest Country to the protection of Almighty God, and those...the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping. 43 On May 14, 1787, the Constitutional Convention met at the State House (Independence Hall) for the... | |
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