...place, and the kindness of these people, I owe every thing. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my...cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. ... let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your...

...Mrs. Lincoln got out. A bystander handed her an umbrella. "Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my...leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return. . . ." Rain dripped from the eaves of the railway station. "Trusting in Him who can go with me, and...

...place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my...attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, 1 cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good,...

...place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I've lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my...leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return. I now leave with a task before me greater than the one that faced Washington. Trusting in Him, who...

...this place and the kindness of this people I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children were born and one lies buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task...

...gathered to say farewell. "To this place and the kindness of these people I owe everything," he said. "I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I...me greater than that which rested upon Washington." He asked for their help and their prayers, and then his train pulled away. Assistants Nicolay and Hay...

...demonstration for its legitimacy. Upon leaving Springfield, Illinois, for the White House, Lincoln remarked: "I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I...task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington."38 But though Lincoln saw himself taking on a role greater than the first president of...

...place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my...cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail... let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers...

...tenet of US civil religion, the conviction that the Divine Being was with America's great leaders: "I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may...him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail."18 And as great British figures are buried in Westminster Abbey, American notables are and will...

...of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe every thing. ... I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I...rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of the Divine Being, ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. ... let us confidently...