Lincoln's Birthday: A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings, Volume 8Robert Haven Schauffler Moffat, Yard, 1909 - 386 pages |
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... feeling and integrity of character , he is an example and an in- spiration to youth unparalleled in history . At the same time he is the best specimen of the possi- bilities attainable by genius in our land and under our free ...
... feeling and integrity of character , he is an example and an in- spiration to youth unparalleled in history . At the same time he is the best specimen of the possi- bilities attainable by genius in our land and under our free ...
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... feel how his memory still works through the years upon such contemporary poets as Gilder , Thompson , Markham , Cheney and Dunbar ; and finally through the eyes of Harrison , Whitman , Ingersoll , Newman and others , show them our hero ...
... feel how his memory still works through the years upon such contemporary poets as Gilder , Thompson , Markham , Cheney and Dunbar ; and finally through the eyes of Harrison , Whitman , Ingersoll , Newman and others , show them our hero ...
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... feeling , he said , that if there was any older and better es- tablished citizen whom the " boys " had confidence in , it would be better to make such a one captain . His poverty was even more marked than his modesty ; and for his stock ...
... feeling , he said , that if there was any older and better es- tablished citizen whom the " boys " had confidence in , it would be better to make such a one captain . His poverty was even more marked than his modesty ; and for his stock ...
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... feel very bad over the situation . The storm of cheers and the sight of tall Abraham ( six feet and four inches ) at the head of the marching column , before the fussy little chap in brass buttons who was quite ready , caused a quick ...
... feel very bad over the situation . The storm of cheers and the sight of tall Abraham ( six feet and four inches ) at the head of the marching column , before the fussy little chap in brass buttons who was quite ready , caused a quick ...
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... feel somewhat jealous of both of you now , for you will be so exclusively concerned for one another that I shall be forgotten entirely . My acquaintance with Miss ( I call her thus lest you should think I am speaking of your mother ) ...
... feel somewhat jealous of both of you now , for you will be so exclusively concerned for one another that I shall be forgotten entirely . My acquaintance with Miss ( I call her thus lest you should think I am speaking of your mother ) ...
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Page 127 - Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Page 382 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 367 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare...
Page 371 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it ; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Page 381 - Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth...
Page 293 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 368 - Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones...
Page 80 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 219 - In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the whitewash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle— and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.
Page 306 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.