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Washington's Farewell Address [1] is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. [2] He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.
Napoleon saying farewell to the Old Guard at the Palace of Fontainebleau, after his first abdication (1814) A farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a capstone to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons ...
Jesus saying farewell to his eleven remaining disciples, from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308–1311. In the New Testament, chapters 14–17 of the Gospel of John are known as the Farewell Discourse given by Jesus to eleven of his disciples immediately after the conclusion of the Last Supper in Jerusalem, the night before his crucifixion.
This is my farewell column, the last after more than 30 years of putting into words feelings and experiences I hoped resonated with others. As the famous Ecclesiastes verse begins: “To ...
A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.
Barack Obama's farewell address was the final public speech of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, delivered on January 10, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. EST. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The farewell address was broadcast on various television and radio stations and livestreamed online by the White House.
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Any poem of farewell, including a farewell to life. The word envoy or l'envoy comes from the Old French, where it means '[the] sending forth'. [3] Originally it was a stanza at the end of a longer poem, which included a dedication to a patron or individual, similar to a tornada. More recent examples are dedicatory poems as part of a collection ...