I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Lincoln, the Politician - Page 103by T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
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...so. "For not giving ypuageneralsummaryof news, you must pardon me ; it is not in my power to do so. I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 276 pages
...1841, three weeks after the scene at Edwards' house, reveals more perfectly how he felt. He says : " I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...giving you a general summary of news, you CHAP. x. must pardon me ; it is not in my power to do so. I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| H. O. Mackey - 1890 - 360 pages
...terrible fits of nervous depression. In one of his letters he writes: " I am now the most miserable being living. If what I feel were equally distributed to...human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 580 pages
...him as he walked.' In an early letter to a friend, written in 1841, Lincoln remarked of himself, ' I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not.' He did get better,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1891 - 582 pages
...him as he walked.' In an early letter to a friend, written in 1841, Lincoln remarked of himself, ' I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not.' He did get better,... | |
| rev. George Barlow - 1891 - 182 pages
...to terrible fits of depression. In one of his letters he writes : "I am now the most miserable being living. If what I feel were equally distributed to...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully f orbode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 pages
...January, 1841, three weeks after the scene at Edwards' house, reveals more perfectly how he felt. He says: "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| William Henry Herndon - 1892 - 406 pages
...1841, three weeks after the scene at Edwards' house, reveals more perfectly how he felt. He says : " I am now the most miserable man living. If what I...human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...the deepest melancholy. (') Heart-rending the letter which he sent to his friend, Mr. Stuart: " I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were...distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall... | |
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