 | Owen Wister - 1928 - 298 lehte
...the choice.'' To Knox, his war comrade, he wrote: "In confidence, I tell you . . . that my movement 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.'' Vine and fig-tree were left behind... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1931 - 440 lehte
...office thrust upon him with reluctance. It is rather sad to read his words written after his election, "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." Such a statement is enough to make... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1932 - 636 lehte
...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; so unwilling am I, in the evening of... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 904 lehte
...compared to a reprieve; for in confidence I assure 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: . . ."2I ADAMS' JOURNEY Jackson kept... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Bailey - 1981 - 344 lehte
...commander of the American rebel armies. After finally accepting his unanimous election, he wrote privately, "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." He fully realized that he was "embarking"... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 lehte
...ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation p which carries him into it Thomas Jefferson 252 MV 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. George Washington Seriously, I do not... | |
 | Frank Freidel - 1998 - 98 lehte
...in New York City on April 30, 1789. George Washington arrived at that Inaugural shadowed by doubts. "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," he wrote his friend Henry Knox. But... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 lehte
...eloquence it is force. 12268 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. 12269 My movement h those of a culprit who is going to the place of executlon. 12270 I shall never ask, never refuse, nor... | |
 | L. Neil Smith - 2001 - 322 lehte
.... . It's going to be a bumpy ride. ANDREA MILLEN RICH, President of Laissez Faire Books My movement to the Chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a criminal who is going to the place of his execution. — George Washington February 4, 1... | |
 | Cormac O'Brien - 2004 - 292 lehte
...term); John Adams, George Clinton (second term) "Father of Our Country," "The Old Fox" SOUND BITE: "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." Jalk about a warm welcome — when... | |
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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... 
