 | 1827 - 524 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 552 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful... | |
 | 1832 - 344 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.—On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient• to awaken, in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient ta awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her chizeni a distrustful... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 622 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 708 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 640 pages
...immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day moie necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition...habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions m my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | John Marshall - 1836 - 500 pages
...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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 620 pages
...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...my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time./£On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country... | |
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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... 
