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I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine blessing which sustained him and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support . And I hope you , my friends , will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance ...
I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine blessing which sustained him and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support . And I hope you , my friends , will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance ...
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Seite 95 - 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.
Seite 56 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Seite 96 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Seite 100 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Seite 115 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 49 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of WASHINGTON. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and...
Seite 100 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Seite 95 - With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Seite 49 - MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried.
Seite 56 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
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| Titel | A Lincoln Book: A Soldier's Tribute to His Chief |
| Autor/in | Josiah Grout |
| Verlag | Tuttle Company, 1925 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 1. März 2007 |
| Länge | 123 Seiten |
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