Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln: Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn |
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... leader gazed to the north , to the south , to the west , with hungry eyes . The dim outlines rose up . The hazy recesses spoke of quiet valleys between the hills . With eager longing , with sad resignation , he looked upon the promised ...
... leader gazed to the north , to the south , to the west , with hungry eyes . The dim outlines rose up . The hazy recesses spoke of quiet valleys between the hills . With eager longing , with sad resignation , he looked upon the promised ...
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... leaders to oaths and solemn trusts ; their violation of the commonest principles of fidelity , sitting in senates , in councils , in places of public confidence , only to betray and to destroy ; the long , gene- ral , and unparalleled ...
... leaders to oaths and solemn trusts ; their violation of the commonest principles of fidelity , sitting in senates , in councils , in places of public confidence , only to betray and to destroy ; the long , gene- ral , and unparalleled ...
Page 44
... leaders in the rebellion , and which will , probably , ere long , be given under hand and seal to the public . So the South has never had wrong visited upon it except by that which was inherent in it . This was not , then , the avenging ...
... leaders in the rebellion , and which will , probably , ere long , be given under hand and seal to the public . So the South has never had wrong visited upon it except by that which was inherent in it . This was not , then , the avenging ...
Page 49
... leader ; he whom they had believed should redeem Israel , snatched wickedly and igno- miniously from their side ; all their hopes of prosperity and power in this world utterly destroyed . He was to leave them a dismayed and broken ...
... leader ; he whom they had believed should redeem Israel , snatched wickedly and igno- miniously from their side ; all their hopes of prosperity and power in this world utterly destroyed . He was to leave them a dismayed and broken ...
Page 59
... leader , to in- spire us from his heavenly seat , where with the other father of his country he sits in glory , while they send united benedictions and lessons of comfort and of guidance down upon their common children - may we not have ...
... leader , to in- spire us from his heavenly seat , where with the other father of his country he sits in glory , while they send united benedictions and lessons of comfort and of guidance down upon their common children - may we not have ...
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Page 269 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 174 - 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; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 360 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 361 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Page 205 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 248 - that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts...
Page 344 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 201 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 194 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 192 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.