 | 1920 - 850 páginas
...bewildering intricacy; the careworn figure of the President is left sitting at the centre and saying, ' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; and in no book (unless it be the masterly little volume which Major Putnam wrote for his sons) is there... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 páginas
...He appeared to himself rather as an instrument. " I claim not," he once said in this connection, " to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." In 1864, when a petition was sent to him from some children that there should be no more child slaves,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...condemns. If he cannot face his case so stated, it is only because he cannot face the truth." - aua a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In...to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled eTents, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 páginas
...It is only because he cannot face tho truth." I add a word which was not in the verbal convermtfew. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my...sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but con fan plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years* struggle, the nation's... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 páginas
...to his recent memorable letter to AG Hodges, Esq., already quoted, he will find this frank avowal: "I CLAIM NOT TO HAVE CONTROLLED EVENTS, BUT CONFESS PLAINLY THAT EVENTS HAVE CONTROLLED ME." This is but another laconic and happy way of expressing his purpose to follow the leadings of Divine... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 páginas
...there can be no cavilling. We have the men ; and we could not have had them without the measure. " ' And now let any Union man who complains of the measure...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to hare controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled cce. Now, at the end of three... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 864 páginas
...line, that he is for subduing the rebellion by force of arms; and in the next, that he is for taking one hundred and thirty thousand men from the Union...events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years9 struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected.... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 páginas
...that he is for subduing the rebellion by force of arms ; and in the next, that he is for taking three hundred and thirty thousand men from the Union side,...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to hare controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 páginas
...Union side, and placing them where they would be but for the measure he condemns. If he cannot face hi* case so stated, it is only because he cannot face...end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition i* not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending,... | |
 | 1865 - 516 páginas
...three hundred and thirty thousand men from the Union side, and placing them where they would be best for the measure he condemns. If he cannot face his...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to nave controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three... | |
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I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. 
