 They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading...  The Great Trial of the Nineteenth Century - Page 53by Samuel Chipman Parks - 1900 - 137 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value...no practical use in effecting our separation from GTreat Britain; and it was placed in the Declaration, not for that, but for future use. Its authors... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to tlie Declaration of Independence upon... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, every where." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value...life to all people of all colors everywhere." The project of making Kansas a slave state was in full progress. The event which Mr. Lincoln had so distinctly... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of every colour, everywhere. * * * Irrespective of the moral aspect •* * I am in favour of this (free... | |
 | 1900 - 1070 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated,and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value...life to all people of all colors, everywhere. The leaders of present-day Republicanism are not engaged in an attempt to "approximate " more and more... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." He then, in the same connection, quoted from his recent speech at Galesburg, and reasserted that part... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value...men are created equal " was of no practical use in affecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated; and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere. There, again, are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 pages
...though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value...of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere." There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon a... | |
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