Lincoln and HerndonTorch Press, 1910 - 367 páginas |
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... truth . It is a work well done , and will stand the test of after years , which unsparingly judge the mere eulogy or invective that would pass for biography . In the volume now completed , my early and beloved friend , Theodore Parker ...
... truth . It is a work well done , and will stand the test of after years , which unsparingly judge the mere eulogy or invective that would pass for biography . In the volume now completed , my early and beloved friend , Theodore Parker ...
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... any vote upon the subject , make the di- rect question of the justice of the war ; so that no man can be silent if he would . You are compelled to speak ; and your only alternative is to tell the truth or tell LINCOLN & HERNDON 27.
... any vote upon the subject , make the di- rect question of the justice of the war ; so that no man can be silent if he would . You are compelled to speak ; and your only alternative is to tell the truth or tell LINCOLN & HERNDON 27.
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Joseph Fort Newton. your only alternative is to tell the truth or tell a lie . I can- not doubt which you would do . I do not mean this letter for the public , but for you . Before it reaches you you will have read my pamphlet speech and ...
Joseph Fort Newton. your only alternative is to tell the truth or tell a lie . I can- not doubt which you would do . I do not mean this letter for the public , but for you . Before it reaches you you will have read my pamphlet speech and ...
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... truth . This study of great books bore fruit in a more delicate literary instinct , a finer feeling for words , and the florid , fiery rhetoric in which he had indulged in his early years became an aversion . Therefore his advice to ...
... truth . This study of great books bore fruit in a more delicate literary instinct , a finer feeling for words , and the florid , fiery rhetoric in which he had indulged in his early years became an aversion . Therefore his advice to ...
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... truth , though it is true that his humor was brightest when his heart was most forlorn . That may account , in part , for the memories of these years of pov- erty , obscurity , and baffled ambition , humor being his re- 1 Life of ...
... truth , though it is true that his humor was brightest when his heart was most forlorn . That may account , in part , for the memories of these years of pov- erty , obscurity , and baffled ambition , humor being his re- 1 Life of ...
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Página 346 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Página 122 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Página 346 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Página 268 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Página 66 - When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Página 236 - I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way ; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.
Página 38 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 80 - That sight was a continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable.
Página 334 - I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Página 173 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.