 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855
...with the fondest predilection, and, in ir.y flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years : a retreat which was rendered...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 408 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 of my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | 1855 - 496 Seiten
...in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a :-etreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well...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... | |
 | 1855
...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... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856
...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 G. Wells - 1856 - 144 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... | |
 | RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD - 1856
...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 of my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | Frederic Myers - 1856 - 472 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,... | |
 | Frederic Myers - 1856 - 472 Seiten
...more dear 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...difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called mo being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most experienced of our citizens, a distrustful... | |
 | 1857
...with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum said ihs % called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
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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... 
