 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 страници
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 страници
...times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 страници
...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...no 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 страници
...becomes me. However, upon the subjects of which I have treated I have spoken as I have thought. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1888 - 718 страници
...erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. (Address to the people of Sangamon County in 1832 or 1833.) Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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 страници
...times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 страници
...times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 412 страници
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 страници
...all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far 1 shall succeed in gratifying... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 страници
...to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...no 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... | |
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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. How far I shall succeed in gratifying... 
