 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 996 pages
...have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." This is almost precisely the style of his later years. The errors of grammar and construction which... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." He soon had an opportunity of being useful to his fellow-men, though in a way very different from the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." This is almost precisely the style of his later years. The errors of grammar and construction which... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my efforts to compensate. But if the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." He entered vigorously into the campaign, going all over the district, making speeches and mingling... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 pages
...53, was issued September 10, 1860, and sent October 30, 1860, to the Register for delivery."—Letter Jos. S. Wilson Acting Commissioner Land Office, June...jeans coat, clawhammer style, short in the sleeves and bobtail—in fact it was so ^hort in the tail he could not sit on it; flax and towlinen pantaloons,... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - Presidents - 1892 - 408 pages
...tariff. The handbill or circular alluded to announcing his candidacy was a sort of literary Culmination, but on account of its length I deem it unnecessary...jeans coat, clawhammer style, short in the sleeves and bobtail—in fact it was so short in the tail he could not sit on it; flax and towlinen pantaloons,... | |
 | MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 pages
...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 fit to keep...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence was the same man who, thirty... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...have conferred a favor upon me for which I snall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But, if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your friend and fellow-citizen, A. LINCOLN. NEW SALEM, March 9, 1832. April 28, 1832.— RECEIPT FOR... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...recommend me. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the county. . . . But if the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." In this remarkable address — to me always pathetic — made when he was only twenty-three, the main... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...have conferred a favour upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labours to compensate. But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep...familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your friend and fellow-citizen, A. LINCOLN. Letter to Colonel Robert Allen. June 21, 1836 Dear Colonel,... | |
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But, if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. 
