| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...Habeas Corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future, which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract...illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life. One of the resolutions expresses the opinion of the meeting that arbitrary... | |
| James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
...curtailment of civil liberties in wartime would establish precedents fatal to liberty in peacetime "than I am able to believe that a man could contract...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life."17 Lincoln's two letters on civil liberties were published... | |
| Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1990 - 285 páginas
...and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract...illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life. (320-21) Lincoln's claim that his behavior was constitutional also... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 páginas
...them." He could not believe that, he said — once again the homely analogy — any more than he could believe that "a man could contract so strong an appetite...illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."44 Once the crisis ended, the other two branches of government briskly... | |
| David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 páginas
...rebellion would be followed in the peaceful postwar future. This argument, he suggested, was like saying "that a man could contract so strong an appetite for...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life." Lincoln considered his letter to Corning the best state... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 páginas
...and Habeas Corpus, throughout the indefinite peaceful future which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract...temporary illness, as to persist in feeding upon them through the remainder of his healthful life. Letter to Erastus Corning and Others, [June 12,] 1863,... | |
| Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 132 páginas
...evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus throughout the indefinite peaceful future . . . any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite for emetics [agents that cause vomiting] curing temporary illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the... | |
| Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 páginas
...loss of "Public Discussion, the Liberty of Speech and the Press" in the peaceful future than he could "believe that a man could contract so strong an appetite...illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."137 The limits of Lincoln's compelling metaphor appeared in the arrests... | |
| John Kane - 2001 - 292 páginas
...necessary to a war situation set precedents for peacetime, saying that this was equivalent to the argument "that a man could contract so strong an appetite for...during temporary illness, as to persist in feeding on them through the remainder of his healthful life."74 The Corning letter, to Lincoln's gratification,... | |
| Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 páginas
...the Press, . . . throughout the indefmite peaceful future, which I trust lies before them, any more than I am able to believe that a man could contract...illness as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder of his healthful life."1 At almost exactly the moment Lincoln was circulating his reply to... | |
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