乔治·华盛顿，美国开国总统，由于他扮演了美国独立战争和建国中最重要的角色，华盛顿通常被称为美国国父。学者们则将他和亚伯拉罕·林肯并列为美国历史上最伟大的总统。
Nothing filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order， and received on the 14th day of the present month.On the one hand， I was summoned by my country， whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love， from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection， and， in my flattering hopes， with an immutable decision， as the asylum of my declining years a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination， and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
在人生沉浮中，没有一件事能比你们于本月14日送达的通知更使我焦虑不
