| 1866 - 278 páginas
...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... | |
| 1866 - 288 páginas
...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 trust to which the voice of my country called me j>eing sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 páginas
...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,...of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken iu the wisest ana most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1867 - 616 páginas
...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 of my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
| James Parton - 1868 - 694 páginas
...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... | |
| James M. Hiatt - 1868 - 426 páginas
...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 despondency one who, inheriting inferior endowments... | |
| 1868 - 422 páginas
...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 rny health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty... | |
| William Cabell Rives - 1868 - 678 páginas
...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 - 1872 - 386 páginas
...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... | |
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