 | William Hickey - 1851 - 580 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination,...experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
 | William Hickey - 1851 - 588 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination,...experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1853 - 466 Seiten
...declining years : a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to mo, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent...experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferiour endowments... | |
 | 1853 - 514 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in mj health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the,magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | William Hickey - 1854 - 588 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination,...experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination,...experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 Seiten
...asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination,...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... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 Seiten
...modesty, that " the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of his country called him, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most...experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 Seiten
...the United States, on the thirtieth of April, 1789, he tells us with characteristic modesty, that " the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of his country called him, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens,... | |
 | 1855 - 512 Seiten
...well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in mj health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time....experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
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... 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 years; a retreat which was rendered every day... 
