 Lincoln legend will be more than ordinarily apt to become fanciful, as his individuality, assembling seemingly incongruous qualities and forces in a character at the same time grand and most lovable, was so unique, and his career so abounding in startling...  Abraham Lincoln, an Essay - Page 116by Carl Schurz - 1891 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Carl Schurz - 1891 - 130 pages
...enough for immortality. To the younger generation Abraham Lincoln has already become a half -mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 482 pages
...peace-loving of mor tals, unable to see any creature suffer without a pang in his own XXII — 813 breast, and suddenly found himself called to conduct...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 pages
...public duties, he frequently went beyond the limits of his party, and gradually accustomed himself to the thought that, while party service had its value,...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...speech and rustic manner, even in the most conspicuous position of that period, drew upon him28 self the scoffs of polite society, and then thrilled the soul of mankind \vithutterances of wonderful beauty and grandeur ; who, in his heart the best friend of the defeated... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 354 pages
...enough for immortality. To the younger generation Abraham Lincoln has already become a half -mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 224 pages
...public duties, he frequently went beyond the limits of his party, and gradually accustomed himself to the thought that, while party service had its value,...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Carl Schurz - Presidents - 1907 - 232 pages
...political elements in support of the Union during the civil war that Lincoln, standing at the head ofthat temporarily united motley mass, hardly felt himself,...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1907 - 236 pages
...career so abounding in startling contrasts. As the state of society in which Abraham ABRAHAM LINCOLN 133 Lincoln grew up passes away, the world will read with...in power, was beyond measure lampooned and maligned 1 34 ABRAHAM LINCOLN by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend... | |
 | Horatio Sheafe Krans - 1909 - 186 pages
...the event has proven their truth that men accord to them the tardy meed of praise. THE TARDY PRAISE " As the state of society in which Abraham Lincoln grew...maligned by sectional passion and an excited party spirit, and around whose bier friend and foe gathered to praise him — which they have since never... | |
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