 | Kenneth Winfred Thompson - 1984 - 350 páginas
...Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from tbe shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 1994 - 386 páginas
...Revolutionary theme. He still spoke with "deep emotion," and now the press reported his completed thought: "It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance."20 One suspects... | |
 | Melvyn Stokes, Stephen Conway - 1996 - 351 páginas
...but hope to the world for all future time." This was the promise "that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance." In his special session message of July 4, 1861 he again used both this image and the race-of-life metaphor... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Peter C. Vermilyea, G. S. Boritt, Jakob B. Boritt, Deborah R. Huso - 1996 - 162 páginas
...p. 236. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1 990). [The] promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. ... If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle — I was about to say I would... | |
 | Philip Abbott - 1996 - 281 páginas
..."often inquired of myself what was the "great principle or idea" of the Document and concluded that "it was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should be given an equal chance."71 The... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 505 páginas
...future time," was the sentiment guiding them. Then, addressing the slaveholding South, he concluded : "It was that which gave promise that in due time the...sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 325 páginas
...affirmed that the liberty enshrined in the Declaration "gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This," said Lincoln, "is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence." But is it? In any event,... | |
 | Frank P. King - 1997 - 228 páginas
...Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the... | |
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It was not the mere matter of separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence... 
