 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 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 iu the wisest ana most experienced of her citizens a distrustful... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 616 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... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1868 - 694 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... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - United States - 1868 - 438 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... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 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 in rny health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1868 - 678 pages
...with veneration and love, from a retreat he had fondly chosen as the asylum of his declining years. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which he was called could not but overwhelm with despondence one so little practised as himself in the duties... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 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... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 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... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 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... | |
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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... 
