| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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