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... Abraham Lincoln - Page 217by Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 542 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...their wetness, hat in hand, he uttered that greatly tender and almost prophetic farewell. " My friends, to this place and the kindness of these people, I...a young to an old man. 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... | |
| Ariadne Gilbert - Biography - 1914 - 452 pages
...their wetness, hat in hand, he uttered that greatly tender and almost prophetic farewell. " My friends, to this place and the kindness of these people, I...a young to an old man. 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... | |
| Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...death. " No one can appreciate," he said to the neighbours at the railway station seeing him off, " my feeling of sadness 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 218 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...a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, S and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task... | |
| Emma Lilian Dana - United States - 1915 - 234 pages
...faces of the great crowd, that had been long waiting there in the fast falling rain. Then he spoke : "My Friends: No one not in my situation can appreciate...a young to an old man. 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... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...vote for Hugh L. White for President. A. LINCOLN. Speech on Leaving Springfield in 1861 MY FRIES DS : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling...lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a 5 young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing... | |
| Brand Whitlock - 1916 - 222 pages
...down his dark cheeks, he made his touching little farewell speech from the platform of the coach: — "My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate...a young to an old man. 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... | |
| Joseph Bucklin Bishop - Caricatures and cartoons - 1916 - 326 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...a young to an old man. 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... | |
| Bartow Adolphus Ulrich - Constitutions - 1916 - 448 pages
...SPRINGFIELD, FEBRUARY 11, 1861 . "My friends ; no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feelings of sadness at this parting. To this place and the...a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether, I may ever return, with a task before... | |
| Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1916 - 532 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... | |
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