 | Edmund Burke - History - 1888 - 592 pages
...Constitution one of them said, ' I have often and often in the course of this session, in the solicitude of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the President without knowing whether it was rising or setting. But now, at length, I see it is rising and not setting."... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...difficult to distinguish in their art a rising sun from a setting sun. " ' I have,' said he, ' often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now, at length,... | |
 | United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland) - United States - 1839 - 596 pages
...Constitution one of them said: "I have often and often, in the course of the session, and in the solicitude of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 710 pages
...found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: but now at length,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. 1 have, said he, often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting : but now at length,... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising from a setting sun. I have," said he, " often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now, at length,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 568 pages
...chair, at the back of which a sun was painted, observed to those persons next to him, " I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun." * * The Madison Papers,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 550 pages
...chair, at the back of which a sun was painted, observed to those persons next to him, " I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun." * * The Madison Papers,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 588 pages
...chair, at the back of which a sun was painted, observed to those persons next to him, " I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes...being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun." l " The business being... | |
 | Washington Irving - Presidents - 1857 - 508 pages
...chair, at the back of which a sun was painted, observed to those persons next to him, " I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears at to its issue, looked at that sun behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was... | |
| |
I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; But now at length I have the happiness... 
