Lincoln, the Greatest Man of the Nineteenth CenturyMacmillan, 1922 - 77 pages |
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... elements in personal greatness . In entering upon this discussion I would offer these considerations as furnishing us a valid principle of selection . We may say that a great man is a man who makes some significant period of history ...
... elements in personal greatness . In entering upon this discussion I would offer these considerations as furnishing us a valid principle of selection . We may say that a great man is a man who makes some significant period of history ...
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... elements in Lincoln's great- ness . First , his combination of lofty idealism with practical sagacity in bringing things to pass . He had his ideals . They hung in his sky as definite and as illuminating as the visions of a seer . The ...
... elements in Lincoln's great- ness . First , his combination of lofty idealism with practical sagacity in bringing things to pass . He had his ideals . They hung in his sky as definite and as illuminating as the visions of a seer . The ...
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... element in his greatness the combination of lofty idealism with practical sagacity in bringing things to pass . The second element I would name would be his power of comprehending men of extreme views ABRAHAM LINCOLN 27.
... element in his greatness the combination of lofty idealism with practical sagacity in bringing things to pass . The second element I would name would be his power of comprehending men of extreme views ABRAHAM LINCOLN 27.
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... element in this country at that time who were ready to go all lengths in the preservation of the Union . Lincoln labored steadily to keep before the minds of the people the idea that the Southern States had not in any sense sev- ered ...
... element in this country at that time who were ready to go all lengths in the preservation of the Union . Lincoln labored steadily to keep before the minds of the people the idea that the Southern States had not in any sense sev- ered ...
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... element in his greatness his power of comprehending and in the end of utilizing men of extreme views by keeping to the front the deeper underlying principles . The third element I would name would be his ability to keep close to the ...
... element in his greatness his power of comprehending and in the end of utilizing men of extreme views by keeping to the front the deeper underlying principles . The third element I would name would be his ability to keep close to the ...
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Page 66 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 66 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 75 - The spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and to set at liberty them that are bruised.
Page 55 - Here was place for no holiday magistrate, no fair-weather sailor; the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado. In four years — four years of battle-days — his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time.
Page 23 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!
Page 47 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Page 65 - He that saveth his life shall lose it ; but he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.
Page 55 - He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
Page 67 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid with another drawn by the sword ; as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 46 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.