 | Ohio - Session laws - 1911 - 812 pages
...true, as has been said by the president of the senate, that very great responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me. 1 am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that without... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites, Calvin Noyes Kendall - United States - 1912 - 572 pages
...peaceably? Why were they not effective? 5. Lincoln said in 1861, "I cannot but know . . . that . . . there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country." Show that he was right. 6. When and where was the first Secession... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...statesman than opened before Abraham Lincoln when he en49 tered upon the presidency. As he feelingly said, "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country." He found the government crumbling under his feet. The South was... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...statesman than opened before Abraham Lincoln when he entered upon the presidency. As he feelingly said, "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country." He found the government crumbling under his feet. The South was... | |
 | Samuel Scoville - 1918 - 100 pages
...his country. The sheer wonder of it made him know that he had been chosen of God for a great purpose. I cannot but know what you all know that without a...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the father of his country; and so feeling I cannot but turn and look for that support without... | |
 | Alice Palmer Henderson - Fort Lewis (Wash.) - 1918 - 554 pages
...love common people, He made so many of them. Lincoln Himself marveled when elected President and said: "I cannot but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should hare a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the father of his country;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...States. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I will bid you an affectionate farewell. Columbus (February IS) ... I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility....there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and so feeling, I can turn and look for that support without which... | |
 | John Wesley Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 454 pages
...wilderness on God than Lincoln as he slowly journeyed on to Washington. At Columbus, Ohio, he said: I know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the father of his country. And so feeling, I turn and look for the support without which... | |
 | 1923 - 546 pages
...Ohio. On the 13th day of February, 1861, at Columbus, to the Legislature of Ohio, he said: I can not but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and feeling so, I can not but turn and look for that help without... | |
 | History - 1923 - 240 pages
...Ohio. On the 13th day of February, 1861, at Columbus, to the Legislature of Ohio, he said: 8 I can not but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country; and feeling so, I can not but turn and look for that help without... | |
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I cannot but know what you all know, that without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country... 
