 | Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 pages
...declining years : a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to mo, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent...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... | |
 | 1853 - 514 pages
...flatterin g 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...habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in mj health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the,magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 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... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 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... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 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...the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the ether hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 pages
...the United States, on the thirtieth of April, 1789, he tells us with characteristic modesty, that " the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of his country called him, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens,... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 466 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...On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of Ihe trust to which the voice of my country called me, bemg sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most... | |
 | 1855 - 512 pages
...well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in mj health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time....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... | |
 | 1855 - 632 pages
...utevery day more necessary as well as more dear to j tered to the present moment. Many of us believe me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of...to the gradual waste committed on it by time." On leaving Mount Vernon, to enter upon the duties of chief magistrate of the country, he again consigned... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 516 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...habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions of my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
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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... 
