 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...that debt of gratitude, which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me ; still more for the steadfast confidence with... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country, for the many honours it has conferred upon me: still more for the steadfast confidence with... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1832 - 360 pages
...as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my sen ices, they were temporary ; I have the consolation to believe,...life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgement of that debt of gratitude ' which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will he welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it." Still anxious, in the highest degree, for the health and prosperity of his country, he then tendered... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 294 pages
...in his power, the priceless riches of his precepts and example. I " In looking forward," he says, " to the moment which is intended to terminate the career...of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honours it has conferred upon me, or still more for the steadfast confidence with... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is to terminate the career of my political life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - United States - 1836 - 304 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circum-stances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is to terminate the career of my political life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...that debt of gratitude, which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will he welcome*. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...while. choice, and: prudence invite me to quit the politicali scene v patri->. otism does not forbid it. M In looking forward to the moment which is ib-.... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment which is to terminate the career of my publick life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgement... | |
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I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it... 
