Lincolniana: In MemoriamWilliam V. Spencer, 1865 - 346 pages |
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... reason , come upon it where you will , it is significant . At every point of his circumference , there were springs connect- ing with the central power and beauty of his soul . The least act had the flavor of the greatest ; and it was ...
... reason , come upon it where you will , it is significant . At every point of his circumference , there were springs connect- ing with the central power and beauty of his soul . The least act had the flavor of the greatest ; and it was ...
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... reason of this was to be found , not only in the ambition of others , but in the judgment of God , and the just hatred of the people whom they had enslaved and oppressed . They were monsters of iniquity and despotism , and aptly ...
... reason of this was to be found , not only in the ambition of others , but in the judgment of God , and the just hatred of the people whom they had enslaved and oppressed . They were monsters of iniquity and despotism , and aptly ...
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... reasons for which cannot be seen by short - sighted mortals . Such is God's method of proceeding , that we are continually compelled to take many things on trust . Faith in him is the great lesson which he is ever teaching mankind . He ...
... reasons for which cannot be seen by short - sighted mortals . Such is God's method of proceeding , that we are continually compelled to take many things on trust . Faith in him is the great lesson which he is ever teaching mankind . He ...
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... reason for different action . Turn back along the history of the past four years , and see how many acts there are , which , had they been otherwise done , would most likely have brought us to - day into another and surely worse ...
... reason for different action . Turn back along the history of the past four years , and see how many acts there are , which , had they been otherwise done , would most likely have brought us to - day into another and surely worse ...
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... power to turn a million wheels . Let not blind passion , but enlightened judgment , rule the hour , and then effective power will be wielded . Let reason and conscience be listened to in their appeals 96 The Nation's Bereavement .
... power to turn a million wheels . Let not blind passion , but enlightened judgment , rule the hour , and then effective power will be wielded . Let reason and conscience be listened to in their appeals 96 The Nation's Bereavement .
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Page 323 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 29 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and...
Page 107 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying ; Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Page 171 - And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Page 109 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more ; the merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory...
Page 29 - ... If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of 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 ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge...
Page 323 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 108 - And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, Shall bewail her, and lament for her, When they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, Saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.
Page 135 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 161 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.