 | Joseph West Moore - 1887 - 320 pages
...shade of my own vine and figtree, free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public 19 290 life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments...welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, can have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring... | |
 | James Walter - Presidents - 1887 - 418 pages
...benefit from repose this same year, he writes,—" Free from the bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am Solacing myself with those tranquil...the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries—as if this globe was insufficient for us all; and the courtier, who is always watching... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...those tranquil enjoyments which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame ; the statesman, whose 263 watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising...his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe were insufficient for us all ; and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...bustle of a camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame ; the statesman, whose 263 watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his... | |
 | Lydia Hoyt Farmer - 1888 - 622 pages
...under the shadow of my own vine and fig-tree, free from the bustle of the camp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil...his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries (as if this globe was insufficient for us all) ; and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance... | |
 | James Rupert Elliott - Agriculture - 1890 - 296 pages
...fig-tree, free from the bustle of camp, and the busy scenes of public life. I am solacing myself with these tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is...his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe were insufficient for us all ; and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1894 - 568 pages
...the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil...his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States - Readers - 1894 - 400 pages
..."Under the shadow of my own vine and fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil...own, perhaps the ruin of other countries — as if this globe were insufficient for us all — , and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1894 - 652 pages
...the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil...schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruiu of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 532 pages
...the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a cainp and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil...his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe was insufficient for us all, and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of... | |
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At length, my dear marquis, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life. I am solacing myself with those tranquil... 
