Lincoln, the Greatest Man of the Nineteenth CenturyMacmillan, 1922 - 77 pages |
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... tion of the hundred years . Mr. Fairfax H. Whelan , a business man in San Fran- cisco , was asked to speak on " The Great- est Mechanical Invention of the Nine- teenth Century . " He surprised us all— and no one knew in advance what ...
... tion of the hundred years . Mr. Fairfax H. Whelan , a business man in San Fran- cisco , was asked to speak on " The Great- est Mechanical Invention of the Nine- teenth Century . " He surprised us all— and no one knew in advance what ...
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... tion of the Union up in armed revolt against the government which he had sworn to protect and to preserve . Now , take those six facts together- the empty treasury , the inexperienced party , the distrustful cabinet , the un ...
... tion of the Union up in armed revolt against the government which he had sworn to protect and to preserve . Now , take those six facts together- the empty treasury , the inexperienced party , the distrustful cabinet , the un ...
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... tion of the Union , the maintenance of the integrity of our country . He was accus- tomed to say , " If I could save the Union by freeing all of the slaves , I would do that . If I could save the Union without freeing any of the slaves ...
... tion of the Union , the maintenance of the integrity of our country . He was accus- tomed to say , " If I could save the Union by freeing all of the slaves , I would do that . If I could save the Union without freeing any of the slaves ...
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... tion which he desired them to take . It was James Russell Lowell , in his essay on Lincoln , who said that there was " a cer- tain tone of familiar dignity , a kind of fireside plainness " about the man not only in his conversation and ...
... tion which he desired them to take . It was James Russell Lowell , in his essay on Lincoln , who said that there was " a cer- tain tone of familiar dignity , a kind of fireside plainness " about the man not only in his conversation and ...
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... the man ! The undaunted strength of his own conviction awed them rather than offended them . They looked at him , leaned back in their chairs and laughed and allowed the mo- tion to be put down in the minutes as hav- ABRAHAM LINCOLN 53.
... the man ! The undaunted strength of his own conviction awed them rather than offended them . They looked at him , leaned back in their chairs and laughed and allowed the mo- tion to be put down in the minutes as hav- ABRAHAM LINCOLN 53.
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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.