 ... 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 dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health...  THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON - Page 1by George Washington - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 532 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 342 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called rne, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1832 - 278 pages
...where he made the following speech to both houses : •" fellow-Citizens of•the Senate, " and of the House of Representatives, " Among the vicissitudes...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | 1832 - 344 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 370 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...the voice of my country called me, being sufficient ta awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her chizeni a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 336 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...trust to which the voice of my country called me, heing sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 708 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1834 - 640 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions m my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties ol civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the...administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
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