The Book of LincolnGeorge H. Doran Company, 1919 - 383 páginas |
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Página vii
... heroes for the future days , And to atone our ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion try , When they are dead ! FLORENCE EARLE COATES . [ vii ] PREFACE HE unceasing fascination which the story of Lincoln holds FOREWORD.
... heroes for the future days , And to atone our ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion try , When they are dead ! FLORENCE EARLE COATES . [ vii ] PREFACE HE unceasing fascination which the story of Lincoln holds FOREWORD.
Página 67
... heroes , every crisis its master . Lincoln came into power in the largest and most violent political convulsion known to history . In nothing is the sagacity and might of Lincoln's statesmanship more ap- parent than in his determination ...
... heroes , every crisis its master . Lincoln came into power in the largest and most violent political convulsion known to history . In nothing is the sagacity and might of Lincoln's statesmanship more ap- parent than in his determination ...
Página 71
... hero of the West ? Only the bravest came , The coward trembled at the two months ' sea ; Only the strongest came , — The weakling feared the storm's inclemency ; Only the best survived , — — The faint and weary sank beneath their load ...
... hero of the West ? Only the bravest came , The coward trembled at the two months ' sea ; Only the strongest came , — The weakling feared the storm's inclemency ; Only the best survived , — — The faint and weary sank beneath their load ...
Página 73
... hero of the West ? A nation is a man ; one Titan soul Pervades the whole . What human art May tear from France the stamp of Bonaparte ? The empire on the Rhine , - What is it but a Bismarck made divine ? And Spain is Philip , though the ...
... hero of the West ? A nation is a man ; one Titan soul Pervades the whole . What human art May tear from France the stamp of Bonaparte ? The empire on the Rhine , - What is it but a Bismarck made divine ? And Spain is Philip , though the ...
Página 74
... hero , gaunt and border born , A man with every shred of soul and heart Of our new soil a part . Behold him ; this is he , This Jarl full - lunged , in every fibre free , Unpolished and ungainly ; honest youth Is evermore uncouth ...
... hero , gaunt and border born , A man with every shred of soul and heart Of our new soil a part . Behold him ; this is he , This Jarl full - lunged , in every fibre free , Unpolished and ungainly ; honest youth Is evermore uncouth ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN-[Continued Address American battle birth blood born Boston brave bronze brother coln coming crown dark dead death deeds deep DOORYARD BLOOM'D dream earth EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN eyes face faith fame Father Abraham flag freedom G. P. Putnam's Sons GEORGE GREY BARNARD glory God's grave hand hath heart hero honour hope hour human JAMES OPPENHEIM JOHN KENDRICK BANGS kings knew labour land LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS LILACS LAST LINCOLN'S GRAVE-[Continued living LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN martyr memory mighty mother mourn NATHAN HASKELL DOLE nation night noble o'er peace people's praise President PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR race REGINALD WRIGHT RICHARD HENRY STODDARD RICHARD WATSON GILDER shine sing slave song soul spirit Springfield stand stars STATUE OF LINCOLN strife strong sweet tears thee thou thought to-day toil Union voice Walt Whitman Washington WENDELL PHILLIPS West WHITNEY ALLEN wild York
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Página 36 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 157 - For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths— for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Página 51 - States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Página 53 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 35 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 39 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 160 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Página 47 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Página 51 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 168 - Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.