 Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.  George Washington - Page 222by Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 582 pages
...hand, from his waistcoat pocket, and then addressed the officers in the following manner : 'GentlemQn, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering it, drew tears from [many]* of the officers.... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1891 - 542 pages
...hand, from his waistcoat pocket, and then addressed the officers in the following manner : ' Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering it, drew tears from [many] of the officers."... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1891 - 540 pages
...hand, from his waistcoat pocket, and then addressed the officers in the following manner : 'Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray, but almost i blind, in the service of my country." This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 pages
...movement, with a sharp rebuke for such a breach of manly propriety and soldierly discipline, but with no thought to stay a righteous protest. He himself summoned...had withdrawn, leaving them to do what they would, they did 7iothing of which he could be ashamed. They spoke manfully, as was right, of what they deemed... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Generals - 1897 - 378 pages
...address from his coat pocket and then addressed the officers in the following manner : ' Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering it, drew tears from [many] of the officers."... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 378 pages
...address from his coat pocket and then addressed the officers in the following manner : 'Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering it, drew tears from [many] of the officers."... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 pages
...address from his coat pocket and then addressed the officers in the following manner : 'Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray, but almost 56 blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner of delivering... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 pages
...evils of a violent course, in an address which he read himself, after this introduction: "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country." " If my conduct heretofore," he said to the officers, " has not evinced to you that I have been a faithful... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 584 pages
...manuscript of his address from one pocket and his spectacles from another, he remarked: " Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country." The scene was very affecting. Washington had given his services to his country without money and without... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1904 - 568 pages
...spectacles with his other hand from his waistcoat pocket, he observed to the officers : ' Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I...gray but almost blind in the service of my country.' This little address " continues General Cobb, "with the mode and manner of delivering it, drew tears... | |
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