 I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness...  George Washington - Página 277por Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 419 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 830 páginas
...President's chair, at the back of which a sun was painted, and observed to the persons next to him ; " I have often, in the course of the session and the vicissitudes...my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. At length I have... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Prince - 1867 - 180 páginas
...the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, remarked : " I have often and often, in the course of the Session, and...know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun." It is our privilege to see that sun in the height of its meridian splendor. May we not hope and trust... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 páginas
...rising from a setting sun. " I have," said he, " often and often in the course of the session, and of the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue,...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Yes, venerated sage, privileged to live on ' Till old experience did attain To something like prophetic... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1869 - 622 páginas
...those persons next to him, " I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitndes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; at length I... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 páginas
...had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have," said he, " often and often, in the course of the session, and...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." From l1is " Essays." 18. THE EPHEMERON. AN EMBLEM. — ~_" IT was," said he, " the opinion of learned... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 páginas
...setting sun. " I have," said he, " often and often, in the course o'f the session, and the vicissitude of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." The instrument was attested in the form submitted by him : " Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1873 - 524 páginas
...president's chair, saying, " I have often and often, in the course of the session and the vicissitude of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now, at... | |
 | Frank Marx Etting - 1874 - 294 páginas
...distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. I have often and often in the course of this session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears,...know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun." 3 Their names in the above list are preceded by asterisks. The voices of Madison, of Mason, of Wilson,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 páginas
...found it difficult to distinguish, in their art, a rising from a setting sun. ' I have,' said he, ' often and often, in the course of the session, and...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." During the session of four months, Franklin, though now in his eighty-second year, gave to its work... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 páginas
...rising from a setting sun. " I have," said he, " often and often in the course of the session, and of the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue,...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Yes, venerated sage, privileged to live on " Till old experience did attain To something like prophetic... | |
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