 | 1926 - 346 Seiten
...And when in 1789, he made his first address to Congress, as President of the United States, he said: "The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, lieing sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | 1980 - 886 Seiten
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 | 1957 - 510 Seiten
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 | United States. Bureau of the Census - 1966 - 346 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." — John W. Foster:... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - 1970 - 84 Seiten
...hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. . . . On the other hand, the magnitude and 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... | |
 | 1997 - 646 Seiten
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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... 
