 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 pages
...contained in the closing paragraph. " Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. " Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellowmen by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall sutceed in gratifying this ambition... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1920 - 572 pages
...him And makes me poor indeed." The great ambition of the great Lincoln, in his own words, was to be "truly esteemed of my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." This primary and precious right solemnly proclaimed in Holy Writ, in the lives and literature of our... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 pages
...have treated I have spoken as I have thought. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." His opponents made fun of his appearance wherever... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 pages
...to the people of Sangamon County in 1832 or 1833.) Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. (Address to the people of Sangamon County,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 414 pages
...erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 pages
...the people his sentiments upon the questions of the day : " Every man is said to have his precious ambition," he observed, " and whether it be true or...no other so great as that of being truly esteemed by my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 250 pages
...jealousy never did help any man in any situation." XX "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." XX " Slavery is founded in the selfishness... | |
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. 
