 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederic Myers - Biography - 1856 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...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...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 - Biography - 1856 - 496 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...flattering hopes with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat which was Moore called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | John Gaylord Wells - Politicians - 1857 - 150 pages
...the asylum of iny declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well us more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination,...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... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...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...the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the ether hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years : a retreat which was rendered •very day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by...frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual wast« committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1857 - 472 pages
...asylum of my declining years a retreat which was rendered every day more necessa ry aa well as mure dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to tho gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust... | |
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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... 
