| 1868 - 422 страници
...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 in rny health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1868 - 678 страници
...with veneration and love, from a retreat he had fondly chosen as the asylum of his declining years. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which he was called could not but overwhelm with despondence one so little practised as himself in the duties... | |
| Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 386 страници
...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... | |
| Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 страници
...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... | |
| 1899 - 500 страници
...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... | |
| 1900 - 460 страници
...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... | |
| John Watson Foster - 1900 - 540 страници
...no event could have filled him with greater anxiety than the notification of his election, and that the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of his countrymen called him awakened a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications ; and as his first... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1900 - 818 страници
...predilection, and, in my flatte hopes, with an immutable decision, 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... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 страници
...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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1901 - 544 страници
...the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit...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... | |
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