 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...they are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, 'I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claun it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as yon of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled eTents, but confess plainly that events have controlled me....plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own saga-- city. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 462 pages
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but con fan plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the...of three years* struggle, the nation's condition is m>t what either party, or any man devised, or expected. Ood alone can claim it. Whither it Is tending... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is... 
