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Mount Vernon: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine
Excerpt from Mount Vernon: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine
No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this. It lies in a high, dry, and healthy country, 300 miles by water from the sea, and on one of the finest rivers in the world. Its margin is washed by more than ten miles of tide water... It is situated in a latitude between the extremes of heat and cold, and is the same distance by land and water ... from the Federal City, Alexandria, and Georgetown; distant from the first, twelve, from the second, nine, and from the last sixteen miles. - George Washington.
From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior - the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity; there he died in glory and peace. While it stands the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine, and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot. - Edward Everett.
Everything, every subject, every corner and step, seems to bring him close... It is an exquisite and friendly serenity which bathes one's sense ... that seems to be charged all through with some meaning or message of beneficence and reassurance but nothing that could be put in words... You may spend an hour, you may spend a day, wandering, sitting, feeling the gentle power of the place; you may come back another time, it meets you, you cannot dispel it by familiarity... And as you think of this you bless the devotion of those whose piety and care treasure the place and keep it sacred and beautiful. - Owen Wister.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
No estate in United America is more pleasantly situated than this. It lies in a high, dry, and healthy country, 300 miles by water from the sea, and on one of the finest rivers in the world. Its margin is washed by more than ten miles of tide water... It is situated in a latitude between the extremes of heat and cold, and is the same distance by land and water ... from the Federal City, Alexandria, and Georgetown; distant from the first, twelve, from the second, nine, and from the last sixteen miles. - George Washington.
From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior - the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity; there he died in glory and peace. While it stands the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine, and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot. - Edward Everett.
Everything, every subject, every corner and step, seems to bring him close... It is an exquisite and friendly serenity which bathes one's sense ... that seems to be charged all through with some meaning or message of beneficence and reassurance but nothing that could be put in words... You may spend an hour, you may spend a day, wandering, sitting, feeling the gentle power of the place; you may come back another time, it meets you, you cannot dispel it by familiarity... And as you think of this you bless the devotion of those whose piety and care treasure the place and keep it sacred and beautiful. - Owen Wister.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
407 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2007
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