 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1923 - 328 páginas
...reputation of weakness." Never was there a more patriotic American. He said of his public service : " / was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love." And again : " The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish which aspires beyond... | |
 | National Archives (U.S.) - 1952 - 44 páginas
...filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order. ... On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose...voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. ... On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - 1970 - 84 páginas
...me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order. . . . On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose...voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. . . . On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country... | |
 | George Washington - 1999 - 142 páginas
...rightly exercised does not fail of its reward. To John Rodgers, Newburgh, June 1 1, 1783 Patriotism I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789 The welfare of our country is the great object to... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 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...but with veneration and love, from a retreat which 1 had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision,... | |
 | Sandra M. Gustafson - 2000 - 320 páginas
...emotions" that the call to serve as president evoked in him. He expressed his sense of duty to the country "whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love" while maintaining his Cincinnatean regret for the loss of the retirement he had chosen in his declining... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 1 4th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose...immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining vears — a retreat which was rendered every day more neC' essary as well as more dear to me by the... | |
 | Vijaya Kumar - 2013 - 212 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...my declining years— a retreat which was rendered everyday more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of... | |
 | Terence W. Cavanaugh - 2006 - 180 páginas
...which the notification was transmitted by your ordei, and received on the 14th day of the present month On the one hand. I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can nevei hear but with veneiation and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection,... | |
 | John P. Kaminski - 2006 - 118 páginas
...sense of duty — one of the themes of the address — however, forced him to accept the position. "I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love." In this his "first official Act," Washington thanked God for smiling upon America, though he never... | |
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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... 
