| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to tlie Declaration of Independence upon a former occasion — sentiments which have been put in print... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that ''all men are created equal," was of no practical use in effecting our separation... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, every where." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere." The project of making Kansas a slave state was in full progress. The event which Mr. Lincoln had so... | |
| J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...looked to, constantly laboured for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...the happiness and value of life to all people, of every colour, everywhere. * * * Irrespective of the moral aspect •* * I am in favour of this (free... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and valu* of life to all people of all colors everywhere." The project of making Kansas a slave state was... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that ' all men are created equal ' was of no practical use in effecting our separation... | |
| 1900 - 1070 pages
...to, constantly labored for, and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated,and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence...value of life to all people of all colors, everywhere. The leaders of present-day Republicanism are not engaged in an attempt to "approximate " more and more... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that "all men are created equal " was of no practical use in effecting our separation... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 522 pages
...looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its...value of life to all people of all colors everywhere. The assertion that "all men are created equal " was of no practical use in effecting our separation... | |
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