 | 1848 - 544 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Frederic Myers - 1848 - 252 Seiten
...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...to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and by frequent interruptions in my health by the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand,... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 Seiten
...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...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 - 1851 - 580 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...with the fondest predi'ection, and, in my flatterin g hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered...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... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 Seiten
...with the fondest predilection, and, in ihy 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 mo, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 590 Seiten
...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...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 - 1854 - 616 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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... 
