| 1913 - 916 páginas
...take up my pen to tell you that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little slim pale-faced consumptive man, has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's...heard. My old withered dry eyes are full of tears yet.' Nevertheless, Stephens mistrusted oratory, as one who knew its dangerous power. When he had conviction... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 páginas
..."to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little slim, pale-faced consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of...My old withered, dry eyes are full of tears yet." During the first session of his term Lincoln made three long speeches, carefully prepared and written... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 páginas
...to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of...anything like he delivered it our people shall see a good many copies of it. " Yours truly, "A. LINCOLN." To WM. H. HERNDON, ESQ. February 15 he wrote... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 páginas
...to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of...anything like he delivered it our people shall see a good many copies of it. " Yours truly, To WM. H. HERNDON, ESQ. "A. LINCOLN." February 15 he wrote... | |
| William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 páginas
...to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of...anything like he delivered it our people shall see a good many copies of it. " Yours truly, To WM. H. HERNDON, ESQ. "A. LINCOLN." February 15 he wrote... | |
| MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 páginas
...little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's [that was Stephen T., not John A.], has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard. My old, withered, dry eyes [he was not then turned thirty-seven] are full of tears yet. ABB. From that time forward he never ceased... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 páginas
...to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of...anything like he delivered it, our people shall see a good many copies of it. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. To WILLIAM H. HERNDON, Esq. February 15, 1848. —... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 páginas
...slim, palefaced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's " (that was Stephen T., not John A.), " has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard. My old, withered, dry eyes" (he was then not quite thirty-seven years of age) " are full of tears yet." From that time forward... | |
| Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 páginas
...little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's [that was Stephen T., not John A.], has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard. My old, withered, dry eyes [he was then not quite thirty-seven years of age] are full of tears yet. From that time forward he... | |
| Henry Watterson - 1899 - 62 páginas
...slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's" (that was Stephen T. , not John A.), "has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard. My old, withered, dry eyes" (he was then not quite thirty-seven years of age) "are full of tears yet." From that time forward he... | |
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