 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 strani
...have received nothing but kindness at your hands. Here the most cherished ties of earth were assumed. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. To you, my friends, I owe all that I have — all that I am. All the strange checkered past seems to... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1903 - 256 strani
...the crowd of his friends and neighbors, whom he was never more to meet, he spoke a solemn farewell: "I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty has devolved upon me, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since Washington. He... | |
 | Francis Curtis - 1904 - 568 strani
...spoke to the multitude assembled to bid him good-bye as follows: My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting....shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is greater, perhaps, than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1904 - 1062 strani
...alluded to. From its platform, he spoke as follows: "Friends' — No one not in my position, can realize the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. I go to assume a task more difficult than that which has devolved upon any man since the days of Washington.... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1904 - 440 strani
...solemnity : My friends, I cannot sufficiently express to you the sadness I feel at this moment. To you I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born ; here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1905 - 422 strani
...Washington, on the eve of the late bloody Civil war : — " My Friends, — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting....not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves on me, which is greater, perhaps, than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 436 strani
...the crowd of his friends and neighbors, whom he was never more to meet, he spoke a solemn farewell: "I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty has devolved upon me, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since Washington. He... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 650 strani
...have received nothing but kindness at your hands. Here the most cherished ties of earth were assumed. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. To you, my friends, I owe all that I have — all that I am. All the strange checkered past seems to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 strani
...position, can appreciate the sadness l feel at this parting. To this people l owe all that l am. Here l have lived more than a quarter of a century; here...children were born, and here one of them lies buried. l know not how soon l shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 strani
...neighbors, but the whole country was in tears.] "My Friends: No one not in my position can realize the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. I go to assume a task far more difficult than that whicli has devolved upon any other man since the... | |
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no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall... 
