 | George Washington - 1886 - 78 páginas
...the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose...which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, anil, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years; a retreat... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1888 - 602 páginas
...was summoned by my country, whose voice I can lever hear but with veneration and love, from a :etreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an imrunta ble decision as the asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1889 - 214 páginas
...notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose...predilection, and in my flattering hopes with an immutable * See Appendix, page 195. with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage... | |
 | John Alden - 1889 - 414 páginas
...notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneratioa and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering... | |
 | George Washington - 1891 - 548 páginas
...the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice 1 can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection,... | |
 | 1892 - 436 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | George Washington - 1894 - 510 páginas
...power I possess, in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause. 1775. THE COUNTRY'S CALL. I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. I have obeyed a summons, to which I can never be insensible. When my country demands the sacrifice,... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 640 páginas
...the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose...the asylum of my declining years — a retreat which wyas rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination,... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Public Instruction - 1900 - 1314 páginas
...taught to the children of this free people, and they will ever be governed by them. Washington said, " I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love." " The love of my country will be the ruling influence of my conduct," " The rank of office to me is... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1900 - 690 páginas
...this for the boys and girls of to-day ! Listen to these quotations from his words later in life : '• I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love." '• The love of my country will be the ruling principle of my conduct." " I will rely confidently... | |
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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 years... 
