 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...should not know how to behave myself. I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to lire at Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied....is my intention to do all in my power to make her hnppy and contented ; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...not be soon. I stay away because I am conscious I should not know how to behave myself. I have been thinking of what we said about your coming to live...make her happy and contented ; and there is nothing I could imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...not be soon. I stay away because I am conscious I should not know how to behave myself. I have been thinking of what we said about your coming to live...make her happy and contented ; and there is nothing I could imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...made a fool of myself. Letter to Mrs. OH Browning, Apr. 1, 1838, vol. I, p. Ç2. FEELING TOWARD WOMEN Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should...would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. Letter to Miss Mary Owens, May J', 1837, vol. I, p. 53. Nor SATISFIED WITH BLOCKHEADS I have now come... | |
 | 1896 - 624 pages
...am often thinking of what we said about your coming to live at Springfield," he wrote her in May. " I am afraid you would not be satisfied. There is a...me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know l should be much happier with you than the way I am, provided I saw no signs of discontent in you.... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 312 pages
...him took away his courage. He felt that he must not draw back, and he became profoundly miserable. "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should...make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort," Lincoln had written Miss Owens three years before. How could he make this brilliant, passionate creature... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 314 pages
...him took away his courage. He felt that he must not draw back, and he became profoundly miserable. "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should...make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort," Lincoln had written Miss Owens three years before. How could he make this brilliant, passionate creature... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...that she would have to make in marrying him. " I am afraid you would not be satisfied," he wrote; " you would have to be poor without the means of hiding...make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I could imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 300 pages
...him took away his courage. He felt that he must not draw back, and he became profoundly miserable. "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should...make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort," Lincoln had written Miss Owens three years before. How could he make this brilliant, passionate creature... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 pages
...made a fool of myself. Letter to Mrs. OH Browning, Apr. I, 1838, vol. I, p. 92. FEELING TOWARD WOMEN Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should...would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. Letter to Miss Mary Owens, May 7, 1837, vol. I, p. 53. Nor SATISFIED WITH BLOCKHEADS I have now come... | |
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. 
