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. Whither it is... Life and Administration of Abraham Lincolnpor George Washington Bacon - 1865Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1889 - 894 páginas
...element " ; who candidly avowed Northern ''complicity" in the wrongs of his time; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
| John William Jones - 1889 - 752 páginas
...element;' who candidly avowed Northern ' complicity' in the wrongs of his time; who said,' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862—I can... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 494 páginas
...the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as 30 well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that... | |
| General Association of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts - 1890 - 1146 páginas
...The true temper I am sure for the great mass of men Is that of Abraham Lincoln, who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Mr. Seward, you remember, complained soon after the inauguration that the Administration was several... | |
| John Warwick Daniel - 1890 - 68 páginas
...element" ; who candidly avowed northern " complicity " in the wrongs of his time ; who said, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"; who had preached revolution in 1848, and revolutionized all things to save the Union in 1862 — I... | |
| Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 páginas
...the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 páginas
...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 - 1892 - 654 páginas
...girding of the Almighty upon them, whose behests they are set to fulfil." — HORACE BUBHNELL. " 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
...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... | |
| John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 páginas
...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... | |
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