 | John Watson Foster - 1900 - 497 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901
...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... | |
 | Joseph Benson Gilder - 1902 - 311 Seiten
...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...time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty [64] of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest... | |
 | 1902 - 311 Seiten
...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...time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty [64] of the trust, to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest... | |
 | Louie Regina Heller - 1902 - 199 Seiten
...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...health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. Oil the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903
...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... | |
 | Robert Brent Mosher - 1903 - 351 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903
...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... | |
 | Robert Brent Mosher - 1903 - 351 Seiten
...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...my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.—On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 180 Seiten
...decision, as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary and more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of freauent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand,... | |
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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... 
