 | James R. Gaines - France - 2007 - 580 pages
...fathers. These things darkened the shades and gave a gloom to the picture, consequently to my prospects of seeing you again; but I will not repine, I have had my day. Washington never had a reputation for prophecy, and this letter would not have given him one. He was... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 490 pages
...I was now descending the hill I had been fifty-two years in climbing, and that though I was blessed with a good constitution I was of a short-lived family,...gave a gloom to the picture, and consequently to my prospects of seeing you again." Strip the letter of its stateliness and it recalls a tearful 13 carriage... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1999 - 385 pages
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I ever should have of you ? And though I wished to say No, my fears answered Yes. I called to mind the days of my youth, and found they had long since fled to return no more; that I was now descending the hill I had been fifty-two years climbing, and... 
