 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 str.
...they will 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...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." This is almost precisely the style of his later years.... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 str.
...they will 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...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. Your Friend and Fellow-Citizen, A. LINCOLN. NEW SALEM, March... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 str.
...they will 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...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." He soon had an opportunity of being useful to his fellow-men,... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 282 str.
...favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if," he dryly concludes, "the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." The election being near at hand only a few days remained... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 278 str.
...upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if," he dryly concludes, " 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." The election being near at hand only a few days remained... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 str.
...they will 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...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." This is almost precisely the style of his later years.... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 416 str.
...will 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...me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined." He entered vigorously into the campaign, going all over... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 str.
...upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if," he dryly concludes, " 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." The election being near at hand only a few days remained... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 str.
...upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate. But if," he dryly concludes, " 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." The election being near at hand only a few days remained... | |
 | MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 str.
...men and affairs as any of his contemporaries. Mr. Webster once said that he had been preparing for his reply to Hayne for thirty years. Mr. Lincoln had...very much chagrined." The man who wrote that sentence was the same man who, thirty years later, wrote this sentence: " The mystic chords of memory, stretching... | |
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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. 
