 | 1891 - 444 pages
...Austin Allibone : "I was trained to look upon life here as a season of labor. Being more than four score years old I know the time for my release will soon...come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity, I await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to rest."... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 838 pages
...letter to the author of this article, dated Washington. D. ('., 30 May. 1882. he wrote: " 1 was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity, I await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to rest."... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1891 - 840 pages
...letter to the author of this article, dated Washington, DC, 30 May, 1882, he wrote: " 1 was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity, I await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to rest."... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 810 pages
...letter to the author of this article, dated Washington, DC, 30 May, 1882, he wrote: " 1 was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...come. Conscious of being near "the shore of eternity, 1 await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to rest."... | |
 | 1891 - 864 pages
...literary work, is one of his last. In 1882 Mr. Bancroft, iu writing to a friend, says: "I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity, I await without impatience an.i without drend the the baud which will beckoning of summon ine to Though... | |
 | James Stevenson Riggs - 1891 - 82 pages
...historian of the United States, wrote to a 1 Eternal Atonement, p. 165. friend in 1882 : " I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being more than four score years old, I know the time for my release will soon come. Conscious of being near the shore... | |
 | Charles Wells Chapin - Genealogy - 1893 - 448 pages
...gayly, " Slaughtering adjectives." To a personal friend and eminent citizen he wrote, " I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...the time for my release will soon come. Conscious of my being near the shore of eternity, I await without impatience, and without dread, the beckoning of... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...following extract taken from a letter written when he was more than eighty years of age: "I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being...without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to rest." The beckoning hand appeared several years later — in 1891 — and he passed quietly... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, Day Otis Kellogg, William Robertson Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 662 pages
...in his youth he was spoken of as "Little Bancroft." In a letter toafnend, written in 1882, he said: "Being more than fourscore years old, I know the time...without dread the beckoning of the Hand which will summon me to rest." BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE, born in Granville, Ohio, May 5, 1832. He went in 1848 to... | |
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Magazine of American History" for June. In a letter to the author of this article, dated Washington, DC, 30 May, 1882, he wrote: " 1 was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being more than fourscore years old, I know the time for my... 
