Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator: A Biographical SketchFunk & Wagnalls, 1891 - 398 páginas |
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... lives of such men as Luther , Huss , Wickliffe and Wesley ; while Cromwell , Mirabeau and Washington are always identified with the cause of popular freedom against tyranny and oppression . And no less inti- mately are the names of ...
... lives of such men as Luther , Huss , Wickliffe and Wesley ; while Cromwell , Mirabeau and Washington are always identified with the cause of popular freedom against tyranny and oppression . And no less inti- mately are the names of ...
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... lives and character of the native inhabitants . Among their many prosperous colonies was one which they called Lin Colonia , located in the fertile country between the River Humber and the Wash . This old Roman colony has developed into ...
... lives and character of the native inhabitants . Among their many prosperous colonies was one which they called Lin Colonia , located in the fertile country between the River Humber and the Wash . This old Roman colony has developed into ...
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... lives they led were laborious and full of danger , for they were compelled to contend not only with want . and hardship , but also with the savages who roamed about in large numbers . The career of Daniel Boone had just begun in Ken ...
... lives they led were laborious and full of danger , for they were compelled to contend not only with want . and hardship , but also with the savages who roamed about in large numbers . The career of Daniel Boone had just begun in Ken ...
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... lives at the fate that had brought so much evil upon them . This class increased in numbers with increasing popula- tion , and came to bear about the same relation to so- ciety , as the " poor whites " of later days . Into this class of ...
... lives at the fate that had brought so much evil upon them . This class increased in numbers with increasing popula- tion , and came to bear about the same relation to so- ciety , as the " poor whites " of later days . Into this class of ...
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... live . In after - life he always looked back upon these early years with pain , and rarely alluded to them . They were characterized by no important occurrence , and their story was but " the short and simple annals of the poor . " Yet ...
... live . In after - life he always looked back upon these early years with pain , and rarely alluded to them . They were characterized by no important occurrence , and their story was but " the short and simple annals of the poor . " Yet ...
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Página 196 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 308 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 183 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Página 198 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Página 309 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Página 309 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom...
Página 199 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 245 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 283 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 234 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.