 | George Washington - 1986 - 24 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... | |
 | Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker, Gordon DenBoer - 1976 - 542 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... | |
 | Irving H. King - 1989 - 258 Seiten
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 | Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 Seiten
...presidency by his country. But, he says, "no event could have filled me with greater anxieties," for "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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1996 - 230 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... | |
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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... 
