 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - 1849 - 414 pągines
...Adams bestowed a benediction on it, which must ever meet with a response from all American hearts — " Before I end my letter, I pray heaven to bestow the...but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!" A description of the house and the city, at that time, is furnished in a letter from Mrs. Adams to... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1856 - 418 pągines
...Adams bestowed a benediction on it, which must ever meet with a response from all American hearts — " Before I end my letter, I pray heaven to bestow the...but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!" A description of the house and the city, at that time, is furnished in a letter from Mrs. Adams to... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 pągines
...: " Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings upon this house, and upon all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever njle under this roof! " Have any but wise men and wise women ever ruled under that roof since that... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 pągines
...and not one before the other. Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best blessings upon this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit...but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." On the 22d of November, 1800, Mr. Adams delivered his last speech to Congress, assembled in the Capitol... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - 1908 - 400 pągines
...bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inNo Great Comfort habit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof ! . . . I am, with unabated confidence and affection, your JOHN ADAMS But Mrs. Adams finds the house inconvenient... | |
 | United States. Commission of Fine Arts - 1936 - 604 pągines
...from a lettff written from the White House by Présidera John Adams to his wife on November 2, 18(Xh I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this...but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof, The Commission recommended that Mr Eric Gugler, architect, of New York City, prepare an appropriate... | |
 | United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) - 1962 - 1096 pągines
...wife from the White House, follows: "\ pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof." 275 Excerpts From Address at a Meeting of the American Foreign Service Association. July 2, 1962 THE... | |
 | 1992 - 822 pągines
...first resident of this important home: I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. 1891 celebrating the 200th anniversary of the laying of the White House cornerstone on October 13,... | |
 | 1979 - 1272 pągines
...prayers." On a marble fireplace in the White House is carved a prayer which John Adams wrote. It concludes, "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." Since I have resided in that historic house, I have tried to live by that prayer. I faced many tough... | |
 | United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford) - 1975 - 1168 pągines
...bestow the best of blessings on this house, and all that shall hereafter inhabit it," John Adams wrote. "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." I am grateful to President Adams for leaving that message and to all who have said amen to it for nearly... | |
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I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof! 
