 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...to the version of his speech which his private secretary got him to dictate immediately after) : " My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate...these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived for a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been... | |
 | 1916 - 1130 pages
...nobler than ourselves with whom we can work in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln's Springfield address : My friends, no one not in my situation can appreciate...buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever 1 may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...address. It was the last time his voice was to be heard in the city which had so long been his home : "My Friends: No one not in my situation can appreciate...the kindness of these people I owe everything. Here 1 have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here ray children... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...neighbors on leaving Springfield, as they stood with their heads bared to the falling snow-flakes. . "My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate...feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place and to the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...standing upon the platform of the car with his hand uplifted. These his parting words : *i86i°' dential "My friends • No one not in my situation can appreciate...a young to an old man. Here my children have been horn, and one of them is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a... | |
 | American literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...townsmen. Jn bidding them farewell he had saiil : LINCOLN DECLINES TO RUN AWAY HIS ENGAGEMENTS. FROM " My friends: No one not in my situation can appreciate...everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, Gentlemen, I appreciate these sugges- ™d have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...our duty as we understand it. Lincoln's Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois. February n, 1861 My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate...the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here 1 have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Presidents - 1894 - 524 pages
...words, breathing a spirit of Christian trust and manly affection for his friends and neighbors : " My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate...this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe every thing. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...left his home at Springfield, and bade farewell to his neighbors in the following touching words : "My FRIENDS : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate...at this parting. To this place and the kindness of this people I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - Presidents - 1899 - 136 pages
...so chaste and pathetic that it reads as if he already felt the tragic shadow of forecasting fate: " 'My Friends: No one not in my situation can appreciate...buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether I may ever return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the... | |
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My Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here... 
