 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 638 pages
...if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings who will award to you a large share for securing to them and their descendants a government of law... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 576 pages
...if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings who will award to you a large share for securing to them and their descendants a government of law... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - Generals - 1891 - 518 pages
...letter is worth quoting in part, to show the relations which existed between these two eminent soldiers: "I repeat, you do General McPherson and myself too...manifested your traits, neither of us being near; at Donelson also you illustrated your whole character. I was not near, and General McPherson was in too... | |
 | Thomas Clement Fletcher - Generals - 1891 - 534 pages
...letter is worth quoting in part, to show the relations which existed between these two eminent soldiers: "I repeat, you do General McPherson and myself too...manifested your traits, neither of us being near; at Donelson also you illustrated your whole character. I was not near, and General McPherson was in too... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 446 pages
...to them and their descendants a government of law and stability. I repeat, yon do General McPhorson and myself too much honor. At Belmont you manifested your traits, neither of us being near ; at Donelson also you illustrated your whole character. I was not near, and General McPherson in too subordinate... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1891 - 480 pages
...if yon can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, yon will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings who will award to yon a large share for securing to them and their de•oeodunts a government of law... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - Presidents - 1885 - 792 pages
...can continue, as heretofore, to be yourself — simple, honest, and unpretending — you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and...them and their descendants a government of law and order." CHAPTER XI. rim ARMY OF THE POTOMAC — GRANT'S INSTRUCTIONS FROM LINCOLN AND STANTOH — RETENTION... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1892 - 630 pages
...if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself ; simple, honest and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings who will award to you a large share for securing to them and their descendants a government of law... | |
 | American literature - 1897 - 630 pages
...if you can continue, as heretofore, to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends and the...beings that will award you a large share in securing them and their descendants a government of law and stability. . . . Until you had won Ponelson I confess... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Readers - 1893 - 446 pages
...you continue, as heretofore, to be yourself,— simple, honest, and unpretending,— you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings." His power lay in being himself; his individuality doomed the Rebellion. A person can be himself and... | |
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You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore, to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends and... 
