 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 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 Maclay - 1880 - 408 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... | |
 | James Parton - 1880 - 688 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 Maclay - 1880 - 392 pages
...declining years — a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me,bythe 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... | |
 | 1880 - 698 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...interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed <n it by time, on the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 498 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... | |
 | 1899 - 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 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... | |
 | 1900 - 460 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. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1900 - 818 pages
...as the asylum of my declining yea a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as t dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent ir ruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by ti On the other hand, the magnitude... | |
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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... 
