 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 páginas
...false to the responsibility of a ruler, there were those who cited against him his own modest words : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Others, however, put upon this language the more kindly and more honest interpretation, that Mr. Lincoln... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 páginas
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUSHNELL. -" I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 páginas
...mysterious girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUSHNELL. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me>" "No human council has devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 páginas
...he cannot f;ice the truth. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity ; I aim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...what either party or any man devised or expected. THB WORDS OF LINCOLN 41 fairly for our complicity in that great wrong, impartial history will find... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 páginas
...not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events controlled me. Now, at the end of the three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills now the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 428 páginas
...against it, nothing can succeed. Notes for Speeches, Oct. 1, 1858, vol. IV, p. 222. CONTROLLED BY EVENTS I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Letter to STAND WITH THE RIGHT Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 páginas
...FRANKFORT, KY., APRIL 4, 1864. " In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events controlled me. Now, at the end of the three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either... | |
 | Manie Sands - 1897 - 106 páginas
...God links." English proverb : ' ' Man proposeth ; God disposeth. ' ' President A. Lincoln, 5,865. " 1 claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Johnson, 5,885. " Every thoughtful person must recognize universal law as master of all individual... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 páginas
...reasons as fully as possible. V. 1. " In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain." Compare this passage with any of the extended references Burke makes to himself in this speech. Note... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1900 - 186 páginas
...the longest purse and the largest cannon. 228 (April 4, 1864, Letter to Hodges— Barrett, p. 481.) I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. 229 (December 1, 1862, Annual Message— Van Buren, p. 233.) In times like the present, men should... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. 
