 | Varina Davis - 1890 - 764 páginas
...received his resignation, the first presented by any member of his Cabinet, and grasping his hand, said, " I can scarcely bear the parting from you, who have...to me for four anxious years and never failed me." At twelve o'clock he was sworn in to take his seat in the Senate. The city was full to overflowing... | |
 | Morris Schaff - 1922 - 302 páginas
...to meet at noon. On rising to bid farewell after a long interview, Pierce grasped his hand, saying: "I can scarcely bear the parting from you who have...to me for four anxious years and never failed me." CHAPTER IX UPON reentrance into Congress Davis rose at once to a figure of marked national political... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1924 - 526 páginas
...to become a Senator from Mississippi, President Pierce grasped his hand saying. "I can scarcely bear parting from you, who have been strength and solace to me for four anxious years and you have never failed me." And yet the US Government put him in Fortress Monroe upon false accusations,... | |
 | 1926 - 706 páginas
...Pierce ended his long farewell interview with his friend Davis by warmly clasping his hand and saying: "I can scarcely bear the parting from you who have...to me for four anxious years and never failed me." Early in 1858 Senator Davis, who was having a busy, trying winter, caught a severe cold which resulted... | |
 | Eron Rowland - 1927 - 544 páginas
...received his resignation, the first presented by any member of his Cabinet, and grasping his hand, said, 'I can scarcely bear the parting from you who have...strength and solace to me for four anxious years and have never failed me." It was along with such distinguished members as Seward, Douglas, Crittenden,... | |
 | Felicity Allen - 1999 - 846 páginas
...His term was to begin when his cabinet post ended, March 4, 1857. When that day arrived. Pierce said, "I can scarcely bear the parting from you, who have...to me for four anxious years and never failed me." He gave him a goldheaded walking stick. They were not to meet again for ten years, though they corresponded... | |
 | Max J. Skidmore - 2014 - 420 páginas
...scarcely bear the parting from you," he wrote to Davis at the end of his term, saying that Davis had "been strength and solace to me for four anxious years and never failed me." Gara noted that this was not mere flattery. "As another national crisis loomed in 1860," he said, "Pierce... | |
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I can scarcely bear the parting from you, who have been strength and solace to me for four anxious years and never failed me. 