 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.  Anecdotes of Public Men - Página 170por John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jacob Abbott - 1860
...all do better ? " Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, " Can we do better ? " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1896 - 181 páginas
...1UNIVERSITY LIBRARY C£B 14 j 9/5 Nartnaati . JS Cushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith Norwood Maw. USA " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our [religion"}." CONTENTS PART I HUXLEY AND SCIENTIFIC... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1896 - 181 páginas
...USA " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to tie stormy present. The occasion is piled bigb with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion....new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then vie shall save our [religioit]." CONTENTS PART I PAGE HDXLEY AND SCIENTIFIC... | |
 | 1898
...to preserve our liberties as each had then to establish them ;" and as he added in another message : "As our case is new, so we must think anew and act...disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country." To the man who perceives occasion for alarm in a duly organized military system, let it be recalled... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1899 - 116 páginas
...compensated emancipation. I cannot forbear quoting some of his words. In concluding his appeal he said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthral... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900
...if I read a brief lesson, which seems written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.1... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900
...we all do better? ' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ? ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 458 páginas
...we all do better?' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, ' Can we do better ?' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. " Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.... | |
 | Samuel Gibbs French - 1901 - 404 páginas
...Harper's Ferry, and for which he was apotheosized and numbered among the saints. Mr. Lincoln said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Our case is new. We must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 448 páginas
...we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " Can we do better? " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disinthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history.... | |
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