 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Mount Vernon, 1785 : " Dear Sir, — In for a penny in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...beck, and sit like patience on a monument, whilst they are delineating the lines on my face. It is a proof, among others, of what habit and custom can effect.... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...Vernon, 16 May, 1785. DEAR SIR, In for a penny, in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...and sit, " like Patience on a monument," whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit and custom can... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...SIR, Mount Vemon, 16 May, 1785. In for a penny, in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...and sit, "like Patience on a monument," whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit and custom can... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...Vernon, 10 May, 1785. DEAR SIR, In for a penny, in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...and sit, " like Patience on a monument," whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit and custom can... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...Mount Vemon, 16 May, 1785. DEAR SIR, In for a penny, in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...and sit, " like Patience on a monument," whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit and custom can... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 532 pages
...but there are not many good pictures of him. In 1785 he wrote to Judge Hopkinson, "I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil that I am now...their beck, and sit ' like Patience on a monument ' while they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...Vernon, 16 May, 1785. DEAR SIR, In for a penny, in for a pound) is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am...altogether at their beck ; and sit, "like Patience on a monument/5 whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 516 pages
...but there are not many good pictures of him. In 1785 he wrote to Judge Hopkinson, "I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil that I am now...altogether at their beck, and sit ' like Patience ou a monument ' while they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1855 - 566 pages
...General's letter to that gentleman on the subject of his sittings for the picture, in which he says : ' It is a proof, among many others, of what habit and custom can effect. At first, I was as impatient at the request, and as restive under the operation, as a colt... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...but there are not many good pictures of him. In 1Y85 he wrote to Judge Hopkinson, "I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil that I am now...their beck, and sit ' like Patience on a monument ' while they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many others, of what habit... | |
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In for a penny, in for a pound,' is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit, like ' patience on a monument,' whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. 
