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Of this remarkable man it can be said , as it was said of our Lord Jesus Christ , " The common people heard him gladly ; and therefore a memoir expressly designed for the mass of readers in our country cannot fail to be warmly welcomed ...
Of this remarkable man it can be said , as it was said of our Lord Jesus Christ , " The common people heard him gladly ; and therefore a memoir expressly designed for the mass of readers in our country cannot fail to be warmly welcomed ...
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No Gabriel heralded his birth ; no shepherds saw the star of his nativity , and heard the chanting of celestial visitants to earth ; nor did sages and philosophers come to his cradle - side with costly offerings and significant homage .
No Gabriel heralded his birth ; no shepherds saw the star of his nativity , and heard the chanting of celestial visitants to earth ; nor did sages and philosophers come to his cradle - side with costly offerings and significant homage .
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... and the despairing cry of agony went up to heaven , in the tears and groans and prayers of long , long years , for a de* Rev. A. Caldwell's Address . liverer . God heard those prayers ; and slowly to 28 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... and the despairing cry of agony went up to heaven , in the tears and groans and prayers of long , long years , for a de* Rev. A. Caldwell's Address . liverer . God heard those prayers ; and slowly to 28 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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God heard those prayers ; and slowly to our eyes and to their waiting hearts , but more surely for the fulfilment of his own grand purposes of love and mercy , he prepared the man who should grasp the keys of destiny with a firm hand ...
God heard those prayers ; and slowly to our eyes and to their waiting hearts , but more surely for the fulfilment of his own grand purposes of love and mercy , he prepared the man who should grasp the keys of destiny with a firm hand ...
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His own prayers mingled with those already mentioned , and the Great Spirit heard and answered . The divine utterance in his own soul was not unheeded ; and day by day listening to it , and heeding its requirements , he not only " grew ...
His own prayers mingled with those already mentioned , and the Great Spirit heard and answered . The divine utterance in his own soul was not unheeded ; and day by day listening to it , and heeding its requirements , he not only " grew ...
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Page 205 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 57 - Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren : and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
Page 120 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the \ United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 192 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 128 - The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 141 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 121 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence ; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the National authority.
Page 138 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 120 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 190 - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses...
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| Title | Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services Making of America |
| Author | Phebe Ann Hanaford |
| Publisher | B. B. Russell, 1866 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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