 South their own judgment as to policy and instinct as to right, that they were in doubt at first whether their loyalty were due to the country or to slavery; and with a respectable body of honest and influential men who still believed in the possibility...  Political Essays - Page 200by James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - 654 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | 1864 - 656 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Biography & Autobiography - 1871 - 450 pages
...course for an absolute ruler.• But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1876 - 454 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1879 - 454 pages
...men who still believed in the possibility of conciliation, — Mr. Lincoln judged wisely, that, iu laying down a policy in deference to one party, he...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Authors - 1887 - 408 pages
...should be giving to the other the very fulcrum for which their disloyalty had been waiting. It behoved a clear-headed man in his position not to yield so...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1889 - 454 pages
...who still believed in the possibility of conciliation, — Mr. Lincoln judged wisely, that, in layjng down a policy in deference to one party, he should...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 418 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | American prose literature - 1891 - 432 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
 | John Kneeland, Henry Nathan Wheeler - American literature - 1891 - 508 pages
...course for an absolute ruler. But in the then unsettled state of the public mind, with a large party decrying even resistance to the slaveholders' rebellion...the materials for misleading which were their stock in trade, and to forget that it is not the falsehood of sophistry which is to be feared, but the grain... | |
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