 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." He was, indeed, going to a task not less great than Washington's, but he was going to it... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1888 - 990 pages
...assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope m your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." Besides these a considerable... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." It is good to remember that this last request of Lincoln of his neighbors and townsmen was... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. A proper description of the Presidential tour which followed would fill a volume. It embraced... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...assistance of that Divine being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell " And with this speech his task was already begun. We are now to mark the career of the rail-splitter... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...assistance of that divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. " Mr. Lincoln had invited several gentlemen to accompany him to Washington ; among others,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...assistance of that divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. " Mr. Lincoln had invited several gentlemen to accompany him to Washington ; among others,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...assistance of that divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. " Mr. Lincoln had invited several gentlemen to accompany him to Washington ; among others,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell. Closing Sections of First Inaugural Address, Washington, March 4, 1861. JHYS 1C ALLY speaking,... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Himwhocangowilh me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good,...prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." At six o'clock the next morning, February 22, Mr. Lincoln kept his word, and, as the sun... | |
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Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I... 
