 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than я quarter of a century. Here my children were born,...buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. I go to assume a task more difficult thafl that •which has devolved upon any other man eince the... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1893 - 464 pages
...Never was farewell more touching than his to his Springfield neighbors: " To this people I owe all that I am; here I have lived more than a quarter of a century;...children were born and here one of them lies buried. I go to perform a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God... | |
 | Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 pages
...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." — The Great Debate; Alton, Oct. 15, 1858. XII " A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than...any other man since the days of Washington. He never could have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I one 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 is buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is greater perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 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 my children were born, and here oue of them is buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is... | |
 | 1895 - 328 pages
...one not 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 to assume a task more difficult than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...any other man since the days of Washington. He never could have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I... | |
 | Presidents - 1899 - 74 pages
...one, not 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 to assume a task more difficult than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days... | |
 | Education - 1901 - 814 pages
...God is marching on. Hear a few familiar sentences from the great Lincoln. In tin- Springfield depot: "Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried." In the Newton Bateman letter: " I know that there is a God and that he hates injustice and slavery.... | |
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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... 
