Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 Seiten |
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... looked to for counsel in exigencies , and to whom they were ready to depute almost any enter- prise which needed skill and energy , or patience and justice . " He was in great request , " says one of his biographers , " by thick ...
... looked to for counsel in exigencies , and to whom they were ready to depute almost any enter- prise which needed skill and energy , or patience and justice . " He was in great request , " says one of his biographers , " by thick ...
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... looked strangely on each other . Confidence be- gan to be shaken . Each separate party blamed the other as they wandered in the darkness . It was one of the strange coincidences which show the eternal freshness of Scripture language in ...
... looked strangely on each other . Confidence be- gan to be shaken . Each separate party blamed the other as they wandered in the darkness . It was one of the strange coincidences which show the eternal freshness of Scripture language in ...
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... looked for an easier triumph , and a result less fundamental and astounding . Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God , and each invoke his aid against the other . It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just ...
... looked for an easier triumph , and a result less fundamental and astounding . Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God , and each invoke his aid against the other . It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just ...
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... looked towards peace and forgiveness . On the day before his death he joyfully ordered the discontinuance of the draft . His very last official act was to give orders that two of the chief leaders of the rebellion , then expected in ...
... looked towards peace and forgiveness . On the day before his death he joyfully ordered the discontinuance of the draft . His very last official act was to give orders that two of the chief leaders of the rebellion , then expected in ...
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... looked up to the clock and called out the hour . It was approach- ing ten . Three successive times , at intervals of sev- eral minutes , the companion thus called out the hour . The third time he called , in a louder tone , " Ten min ...
... looked up to the clock and called out the hour . It was approach- ing ten . Three successive times , at intervals of sev- eral minutes , the companion thus called out the hour . The third time he called , in a louder tone , " Ten min ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
38th Congress abolitionists Abraham Lincoln anti-slavery army battle BATTLE OF SHILOH became blood Boston called campaign cause character Charles Sumner Chase Christian church citizens Colfax colored command constitution course debates defend Douglas Douglass duty election emancipation father feeling fight force Fort Duncan Frederick Douglass friends fugitive slave fugitive slave law Garrison Governor Grant Greeley hand heart Henry Wilson honor human Illinois Increase Sumner justice labor lawyer liberty Lincoln living Massachusetts master ment military mind moral mother nation negro never Ohio once paper party political poor President principle rebel rebellion Schuyler Colfax Senate sentiment Sheridan Sherman side slaveholders slavery society solemn South southern speech Stanton Sumner things thought tion took Union Union army United Vicksburg VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN victory vigorous vote Washington Whig Whig party whole words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Seite 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Seite 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Seite 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Seite 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Seite 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Seite 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Seite 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Seite 40 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Seite 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...