 | Charles Francis Adams - Governors - 1873 - 96 pages
...another. I must, then, affirm without hesitation that, in the history of our Government down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...foreign relations, of which he knew absolutely nothing. Furthermore, he was quite deficient in his acquaintance with the character and qualities of public... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Governors - 1873 - 82 pages
...another. I must, then, affirm without hesitation that, in the history of our Government down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...foreign relations, of which he knew absolutely nothing. Furthermore, he was quite deficient in his acquaintance with the character and qualities of public... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
..." I must then affirm, without hesitation, that in the history of our government, down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln." False to absurdity as this affirmation is, it was made by many at the time. " When Lincoln was nominated,"... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
..." I must then affirm, without hesitation, that in the history of our government, down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln." False to absurdity as this affirmation is, it was made by many at the time. " When Lincoln was nominated,"... | |
 | Gideon Welles - Reconstruction - 1911 - 638 pages
...Mr. Seward, wherein he said that from the birth of our government no other "experiment so rash had ever been made as that of elevating to the head of...previous preparation for his task" as Mr. Lincoln had. Now it may be admitted that this allegation, construed with such literal narrowness as Jeffersonians... | |
 | John Anderson Richardson - Confederate States of America - 1914 - 616 pages
...must therefore affirm, without hesitation, that in the history of our government, down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...elevating to the head of affairs a man with so little preparation for the task as Lincoln." This accounts for his persistent claim that (he silence of the... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 566 pages
...another. I must then affirm, without hesitation that, in the history of our Government down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...so little previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln.f Mrs. Lincoln returned from the inauguration ball to the White House, tired but triumphant.... | |
 | Wayland Farries Vaughan - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1928 - 340 pages
...His only previous achievement had been a debate on slavery. Charles Francis Adams remarked in 1873 : "No experiment so rash has ever been made as that of elevating to the head of affairs a man of so little previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln." 21 Men thought that a greater statesman... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...affirm, without hesitation," Adams declared, "that in the history of our government, down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of...previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln." Fortunately, he had enough sense to recognize his inadequacy, and so surrendered direction of affairs... | |
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I must, then, affirm without hesitation that, in the history of our Government down to this hour, no experiment so rash has ever been made as that of elevating to the head of affairs a man with so little previous preparation for his task as Mr. Lincoln. 
