...for myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to...his execution; so unwilling am I in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without...

...General Knox : "The delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence I tell you (in the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by 146 feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." His mother, in...

...the news with outward calm but inward perturbation, for he had said in a recent letter to Gen. Knox: "My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied...culprit, who is going to the place of his execution. "* When the summons came he was ready to obey it promptly for he recognized it as the call of duty....

...more from his peaceful home at Mount Vernon he thus described in a letter to a friend: 'My movement to the chair of Government will be accompanied by...feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to his place of execution, so unwilling am I, in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares,...

...Mount Vernon for New York to be inaugurated first president, Washington wrote to General Knox that his "movements to the chair of government will be accompanied...culprit who is going to the place of his execution." * As his term of official service drew towards its close he may often have reflected upon the feelings...

...that the country would never have reason to regret its choice, and in a letter to a friend he said, "My movements to the Chair of Government will be accompanied...unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution." And when the time came for him to leave his beloved home for New York and his inauguration,...

...confidence I tell you (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the seat of government will be accompanied by feelings not...unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution, so unwilling am I, in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful...

...For myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence, I tell you (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements...his execution; so unwilling am I in the evening of life, nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without...

...On the first of April 1789 he wrote thus to General Knox: "In confidence I tell you (with the world it would obtain little credit) that my movements to...unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of execution. ... I am sensible that I am embarking the voice of the people and the good name of my own...

...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...culprit who is going to the place of his execution.'' Vine and fig-tree were left behind in this spirit, in which there is nowhere to be found any sign of...