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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... "
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ... - Page 404
1864
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Abraham Lincoln, President-elect: The Four Critical Months from Election to ...

Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 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...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 the support without...
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Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth ...

William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...with them the Washington theme of his Farewell Address to his friends in Springfield the day he left: 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 cannot but turn and look for the support without...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...To the state legislature at Columbus that night Lincoln made a speech peculiar from several angles: "I cannot but know what you all know, that, without...there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country ... I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God...
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War

Stephen William Berry - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 318 pages
...of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency," he told a crowd. "I am [a man] without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name." Regarding himself "but an accidental instrument" of a strange election, Lincoln joked that he was too...
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862

Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1862 - 506 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...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...
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)

Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 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. I am deeply sensible of that weight)' responsibility. I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without...
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Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 32

Ohio - 1924 - 784 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. I am duly sensible of that weighty responsibility. I can but know what you all know, that, without a name...
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