 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. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Página 170por John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 páginas
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay dearly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1995 - 188 páginas
...discovered a reason for the war's long duration. In a letter to a Kentuckian in April 1864 he observed, "Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... | |
 | Robert E. Zinser - 2003 - 656 páginas
...Catton, "This Hallowed Ground" New York: Pocket Books, Inc. 1956, p. 488] In the same vein Lincoln wrote, "...the nation's condition is not what either party,...man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it." ["The Living Words of Abraham Lincoln" Hallmark Editions, 1967, p. 43] This fits well with his upbringing.... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - 2003 - 344 páginas
...war that seemed to promise no end, "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."... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 páginas
...attempt no complement to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Wither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... | |
 | Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff - 2004 - 593 páginas
...nation's condition is not what either party, or what any man, devised or expecred, God alone can claim it, If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...that we of the North as well as you of the South, will pay fairly for our complicity m that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to atrest... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - 2005 - 396 páginas
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. (7.282) In this cautious yet logically insistent allusion to providential sanction, Lincoln defended... | |
 | Ronald C. White - 2006 - 257 páginas
...attempt no complement to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that LINCOLN'S GREATEST SPEECH 97 wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrc*ig, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our... | |
 | Adam I. P. Smith - 2006 - 280 páginas
...address, Lincoln wrote to a Kentucky newspaper editor on the subject of emancipation, speculating that "if God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and...of the North as well as you of the South shall pay for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new causes to attest and revere... | |
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