 ... 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
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 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...overwhelm, with despondence, one, who, inheriting inferiour endowments from nature, and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 128 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... | |
 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 498 pages
...On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust, to which the voice of my country has called me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest...one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature, * In the language of the Constitution, the term Congress is frequently uscil to signify the federal... | |
 | Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 496 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 has called me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most experience*d of her citizens, a distrustful... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Canada History War of 1812 - 1840 - 494 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 has called me, being sufficient to awaken, in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful... | |
 | Edward Currier - United States - 1841 - 474 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 that I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the ether .hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to...ad-ministration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiences. In this conflict of emotions, all that I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 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 that I dare aver is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 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... | |
 | Henry Sherman - United States - 1843 - 302 pages
...and of frequent interruptions in my health, yielding 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 1 dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study... | |
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