 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson - Presidents - 1922 - 512 pages
..."For not giving you a general summary of news, you must pardon me ; it is not in my power to do so. I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 pages
...mystery, the engagement was broken. "I am now the most miserable man living," Lincoln wrote a friend. "If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole...family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth." A new attack of misery and melancholy came upon him. Finally the engagement was renewed and they were... | |
 | American literature - 1896 - 644 pages
...did not pretend to conceal this from his friends. Writing to Mr. Stuart on January 2jd, he said : " 1 am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell : I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain... | |
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - National characteristics, American - 1924 - 356 pages
...was watched closely for days, and all "knives and razors were removed from his reach." He said: "I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were...family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. I must die or do better." . . . "The never-absent idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have... | |
 | Anna Maria Rose Wright - Determination (Personality trait) - 1925 - 472 pages
..."For not giving you a general summary of the news, you must pardon me. It is not in my power to do so. I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...equally distributed to the whole human family, there could not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - United States - 1925 - 338 pages
..."melancholy dripped from him as he walked," 59 and which Lincoln himself described as so terrible that "if what I feel were equally distributed to the whole...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth." 60 Did Mary cause this grief or did she alleviate it? Herndon by no means affirms the former,... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 802 pages
..."melancholy dripped from him as he walked," and which Lincoln himself described as so terrible that " if what I feel were equally distributed to the whole...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth." Did Mary cause this grief or did she cure it? Herndon does not quite affirm the former,... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - United States - 1925 - 336 pages
..."melancholy dripped from him as he walked," 59 and which Lincoln himself described as so terrible that "if what I feel were equally distributed to the whole...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth." 60 Did Mary cause this grief or did she alleviate it? Herndon by no means affirms the former,... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 528 pages
...this kind of case he could do nothing without first a personal interview. He wrote his partner Stuart: "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth." He was seeing Dr. Henry often, and wrote Stuart, "Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot... | |
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... 
