 I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county; and, if elected, they will have conferred...  St. Nicholas - Página 130editado por - 1906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Clark Smith Beardslee - 1914 - 252 páginas
...1832, Lincoln said: "I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks of life." He adds: "If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." In the same speech he said: "I have no other (ambition) so great as that of being truly esteemed of... | |
 | Wayne Whipple - 1915 - 258 páginas
...exclusively upon the independent voters of the country; and, if elected, they will have conferred a favor on me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." "CAPTAIN LINCOLN" Lincoln had hardly launched in his first political venture when, in April, 1832,... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 238 páginas
...truly esteemed of my fellowmen, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed....familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885) ULYSSES S. GRANT* THE SON OF AN OHIO TANNER WHO BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE... | |
 | Brand Whitlock - 1916 - 222 páginas
...cheat the law. . . . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county. . . . But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." Here, indeed, with the people he had to leave his case, for his campaign was presently interrupted... | |
 | Jasper Leonidas McBrien - 1916 - 300 páginas
...candidate for the Legislature, issued at the ripe old age of twenty-three, closes with these words: "But if the good people in their wisdom shall see...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence, thirty years later wrote... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 296 páginas
...and unknown to many of you. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life, and if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." Although Lincoln received all but seven of the two hundred... | |
 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 páginas
...truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed....familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." How few could excel or equal this at twenty-three years of age. He had now been in Illinois but two... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 páginas
...friends to recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country, and if elected, they will have conferred a favor upon...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your friend and fellow citizen, A. LINCOLN. FROM THE PEORIA SPEECH. OCTOBER 16, 1854 This speech will... | |
 | Octavia Roberts - 1918 - 220 páginas
...said: "I am young and unknown; I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walk of life. . . . If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." It was probably in the spirit of these words that Lincoln returned to New Salem and resumed his occupation... | |
 | Octavia Roberts - 1918 - 206 páginas
...and have ever remained in the most humble walk of life. . . . If the good people in their wisII dom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." It was probably in the spirit of these words that Lincoln returned to New Salem and resumed his occupation... | |
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