 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - 1867 - 590 páginas
...other 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 blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, Charles Wentworth Upham - 1867 - 582 páginas
...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 have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner... | |
 | George Washington - 1891 - 542 páginas
...his other 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 blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 378 páginas
...his written 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 blind, in the service of my country.' This little address, with the mode and manner... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 páginas
...written paper from his pocket, adjusted his spectacles to read it. " Gentlemen," he said, very simply, " 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." There were wet eyes upon the instant in the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 páginas
...written paper from his pocket, adjusted his spectacles to read it. " Gentlemen," he said, very simply, "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." There were wet eyes upon the instant in the... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1896 - 376 páginas
...his written 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... | |
 | Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1897 - 666 páginas
...his glasses out of his waistcoat pocket) saying 'Gentlemen will permit me to put on my spectacles. I have not only grown grey but almost blind in the service of my country.' This remark with the mode and manner of saying it drew tears from the eyes of many of the officers.... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1901 - 492 páginas
...stating the 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 have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country." " If my conduct heretofore," he said to the... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 páginas
...us that as he took the 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 have not only grown gray, but almost blind, in the service of my country." The scene was very affecting. Washington had... | |
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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. 
