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... been hinted that this was the act of a drunken fool or a madman . Perhaps it was . But drunken fools and crazy fanatics are not seldom the chosen instruments of 30 MEMORIAL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN . Remarks of Hon P W Chandler.
... been hinted that this was the act of a drunken fool or a madman . Perhaps it was . But drunken fools and crazy fanatics are not seldom the chosen instruments of 30 MEMORIAL OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN . Remarks of Hon P W Chandler.
Page 31
... , with companions in guilt , under- took to fire most of the hotels in a large city , and thus destroy hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives of inno- cent people , and this far away from the active MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL . 31.
... , with companions in guilt , under- took to fire most of the hotels in a large city , and thus destroy hundreds and perhaps thousands of lives of inno- cent people , and this far away from the active MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL . 31.
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... perhaps never to rise again , both have fallen by the hands of rebel assas- sins , -one in the place of the public assembly , and the other in the privacy of his sick - chamber , and perhaps then - on his dying bed . The nation stands ...
... perhaps never to rise again , both have fallen by the hands of rebel assas- sins , -one in the place of the public assembly , and the other in the privacy of his sick - chamber , and perhaps then - on his dying bed . The nation stands ...
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... perhaps not unfre- quently , that we had some leader of transcendent genius or influence at the head of the nation to guide its counsels and lead its armies , -a Cæsar , a Cromwell , or a Napo- leon . But nothing could have been more ...
... perhaps not unfre- quently , that we had some leader of transcendent genius or influence at the head of the nation to guide its counsels and lead its armies , -a Cæsar , a Cromwell , or a Napo- leon . But nothing could have been more ...
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... perhaps the talent which most particularly distin- guished Mr. Lincoln , and qualified him so preeminently for his high office as the head of a popular government in times of such perilous perplexities and embarrassments , and to be the ...
... perhaps the talent which most particularly distin- guished Mr. Lincoln , and qualified him so preeminently for his high office as the head of a popular government in times of such perilous perplexities and embarrassments , and to be the ...
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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.