 | George Cochrane Hazelton - 1902 - 360 strani
...we can almost hear him feelingly utter the words of his only surrender : " I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and...myself before them, to surrender into their hands the tmst committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country." Weir,... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 568 strani
...great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and...our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with an opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1904 - 568 strani
...great events on which my resignation depended, having at length taken place, I have now the honour of offering my sincere congratulations to congress, and...independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States, of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - 1904 - 620 strani
...depended, having at length taken place, I have now the honor ... to surrender into their (Congress's) hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the...indulgence of retiring from the service of my country. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire, . . . bidding an affectionate farewell to this... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 628 strani
...taken place • I have now the honor of offertng m congratulations to Congress• and of premyself before them, to surrender Into their hands the trust committed to me• and to clatm tiie indulgence of returning from the service of my Country. Happy in the confirmation of our... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 594 strani
...said he, " on which my resignation depended, having at length taken place, I now have the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and...me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the sendee of my country." After expressing his obligations to the army in general, and acknowledging the... | |
 | George Washington - 1906 - 136 strani
...great events, on which my resignation depended, having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and...indulgence of retiring from the service of my country." For four years after this he lived in retirement at Mount Vernon, busy with private affairs, yet necessarily... | |
 | Le Baron Bradford Colt - 1906 - 190 strani
...great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I now have the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and...indulgence of retiring from the service of my country." Turn to another instance of the highest practical wisdom by the author of the Declaration of Independence.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 642 strani
...before Congress to surrender into: .their hands the trust corri•mitted to ine,. and to claim :itbe 'indulgence' of retiring from the service of :my country. "'Happy in the confirmation of i our independence and sovereignty, I resign : the appointment •I 'accepted with diffidence; which,... | |
 | William Hand Browne, Louis Henry Dielman - 1907 - 426 strani
...events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I present myself before Congress to surrender into their hands the trust committed...confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, I resign the appointment I accepted with diffidence ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence... | |
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MR. PRESIDENT : The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and of presenting myself before them, to surrender into their hands the trust committed... 
