 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century....not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves on me which is greater, perhaps, than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - America - 1882 - 590 pages
...was leaving them, " I know not how soon I shall see you again, I go to assume a task more difficult than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington." He had nobly accomplished his task ; and this was the manner of his home-coming. CHAPTER X. THE LOSSES... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1883 - 612 pages
...the sadness that I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived for more than a quarter of a century. Here my children...shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is greater, perhaps, than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of "Washington. He... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 pages
...one, in my position, can realize the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century....buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. I go in assume a task more difficult than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 586 pages
...not in my position, can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century,...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I will see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has rested upon... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...one, in my position, can realize the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were horn, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. I go to assume a... | |
 | Prayer - 1885 - 394 pages
...one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century...upon any other man since the days of Washington. He would never have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied.... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1885 - 144 pages
...not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century....shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is greater perhaps than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He would... | |
 | Daniel Webster Whittle - Homiletical illustrations - 1885 - 394 pages
...position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all I am. Here I hare lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children...upon any other man since the days of Washington. He would never have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which ho at all times relied.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...themselves. In his brief farewell words to the people of Springfield, February 11, 1861, Mr. Lincoln said: "A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater...that which has devolved upon any other man since. • 620 LIFE AND TIMES OF the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid... | |
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No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe ' all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon... 
