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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ... - Page 358
by David Ramsay - 1807 - 464 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1856 - 312 pages
...Satisfied that if any circumstances havi given peculiar value to my services, they were tempo rary. I have the consolation to believe, that while choice...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings Jo not permit me to suspend the deep...
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A History of the United States: For Families and Libraries

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend tlfc deep...
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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in ...

Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1922 - 360 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties ...

Edward Conrad Smith - United States - 1924 - 544 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1922 - 1086 pages
...it would have been stances have given peculiar value to mv much earlier in my power, consistently 40 services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice portant to the permanency of your felicity and prudence invite me to quit the political as a People....
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American ..., Volume 5

John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 600 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have...life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the CHAP, iv deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude ,706 which I owe to my beloved country, for...
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The Story of the Constitution

Sol Bloom, United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - Constitutional history - 1937 - 206 pages
...of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. — Satisfied that if any circumstances...it. — In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register

Almanacs, American - 1924 - 1040 pages
...ol years aihnonishes me more and more that the shade ol retirement is as necessary to me as it will &EV no* forbid it. In looking forward to the moment whicb is to terminate tbe career of my political lif*...
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West Publishing Company's Docket, Volume 4

Law - 1928 - 1070 pages
...of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep...
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