A Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States |
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... individual opinions and actions were considered so vital to its future welfare , has filled the Nation's heart with gloom . In the midst of the jubilant and Proceedings of the City Council Communication of Mayor Lincoln.
... individual opinions and actions were considered so vital to its future welfare , has filled the Nation's heart with gloom . In the midst of the jubilant and Proceedings of the City Council Communication of Mayor Lincoln.
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... future ages , and give him a place in his country's fame by the side of the immortal Washing- ton . 3. That we accord to the family of our late Chief Magistrate our heartfelt and tender sympathy in their irreparable loss PROCEEDINGS OF ...
... future ages , and give him a place in his country's fame by the side of the immortal Washing- ton . 3. That we accord to the family of our late Chief Magistrate our heartfelt and tender sympathy in their irreparable loss PROCEEDINGS OF ...
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... future . If there be anything marvellous in personal history , - if there be anything in the history of nations betokening Divine intervention in the appointment of their rulers , - if it be manifest that an especial Providence raised ...
... future . If there be anything marvellous in personal history , - if there be anything in the history of nations betokening Divine intervention in the appointment of their rulers , - if it be manifest that an especial Providence raised ...
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... future certain . The people have willed that the national life shall be sustained , that law and free- dom shall bless the land , and the flag of the Union shall wave , as before , over it from the Canadas to the Gulf , and from ocean ...
... future certain . The people have willed that the national life shall be sustained , that law and free- dom shall bless the land , and the flag of the Union shall wave , as before , over it from the Canadas to the Gulf , and from ocean ...
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... future safety or duty is concerned , is it material . Unhappily for them , the whole course of conduct of the instigators and leaders of this Rebellion has been notori- ously such as to render their participation or connivance in a ...
... future safety or duty is concerned , is it material . Unhappily for them , the whole course of conduct of the instigators and leaders of this Rebellion has been notori- ously such as to render their participation or connivance in a ...
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Page 112 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 82 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 81 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 82 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Page 81 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation ; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 81 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way. "Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 117 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all National Governments. It is safe to assert that no Government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 56 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Page 152 - And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity ; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Page 131 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him farther ! Lady M.