 They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands....  The Civil War in America - Page 33by Walter Gaston Shotwell - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...highest prosperity, they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...highest prosperity, they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...his highest prosperity they could have brought about IL ..as favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands, And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...party, bring themselves to give up the charming hope; bat with greedier anxiety they rush about him, sustain him, and give him marches, triumphal entries,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...[Great laughter.] And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they can not, in the little distraction that has taken place in...rush about him. sustain him, and give him marches, trinmphal entries, and receptions, beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...[Great laughter.] And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they can not, in the little distraction that has taken place in...highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...[Great laughter.] And as they have been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they can not, in the little distraction that has taken place in...highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On tjbe contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they hove been gazing upon this attractive picture so long, they cannot, in the...highest prosperity, they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody... | |
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