 | Helen Nicolay - 1912 - 426 str.
...began to comment on his appearance, saying he was a very common-looking man, to which he replied, " the Lord prefers common-looking people, that is the reason he makes so many of them." His shuddering comment on a portrait of himself was that it was " horribly like." And there is the... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1912 - 440 str.
...began to comment on his appearance, saying he was a very common-looking man, to which he replied, " the Lord prefers common-looking people, that is the reason he makes so many '5 225 of them." His shuddering comment on a portrait of himself was that it was " horribly like."... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1915 - 1064 str.
...comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a very common-looking man." The President replied: "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them." Under date September 23, 1862, we have a still more memorable entry: The President wrote the [Emancipation]... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 502 str.
...comment on his appearance. One of them said: 'He is a very common-looking man.' The President replied: 'The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.'" Among other duties, it fell to Hay to act as guide 1 Lincoln's letter of August 17, 1863, to Hackett... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1915 - 508 str.
...comment on his appearance. One of them said: 'He is a very common-looking man.' The President replied: 'The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.'" Among other duties, it fell to Hay to act as guide 1 Lincoln's letter of August 17, 1863, to Hackett... | |
 | Francis Grierson - 1918 - 104 str.
...heard some one say: "He is a common-looking fellow." Lincoln, in his dream, turned to the man and said: "Friend, the Lord prefers commonlooking people ; that is the reason He makes so many of them." Shortly before Lincoln's assassination some friends were talking about certain dreams recorded in the... | |
 | Charles Anthony Shriner - 1918 - 712 str.
...comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a very common-looking man." The president replied, "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them." — \\'ILLIAM ROSCOE THAYEE, "The Life of John llay." With Seekers for Office General Sherman, who... | |
 | 1918 - 708 str.
...comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a very common-looking man." The president replied, he paid dear, very dear, for his whistle." When I see a beautiful sweet-tempered girl — WiiiiAM ROSCOE THAYEB, "The Life of John Hay." With Seekers for Office General Sherman, who like... | |
 | Francis Grierson - 1919 - 112 str.
...some one say : " He is a common-looking fellow." Lincoln, in his dream, turned to the man and said : " Friend, the Lord prefers commonlooking people ; that is the reason He makes so many of them." Shortly before Lincoln's assassination some friends were talking about certain dreams recorded in the... | |
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President tonight had a dream. He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: 'He is a very common-looking man.' The President replied: 'The Lord prefers common-looking... 
