 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this Republic, — Abraham Lincoln. He was the " sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both,... | |
 | 1887 - 436 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who standw as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace, of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of 1'uritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Religion - 1887 - 618 pages
...periods still linger in our ears, paying that astonishing tribute to Abraham Lincoln — " He stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of the Republic. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1887 - 476 pages
...purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands us the first typical American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, nil the majesty and grace, of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of t'uritan and Cavalier,... | |
 | Wallace Putnam Reed - Atlanta (Ga.) - 1889 - 922 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 568 pages
...slowly Sherman, '•Memoirs." Vol. II., p. 328. " Battles and Vol. II., p. 406. 351 HW Grady. perfeeting through a century, came he who stands CH. xvin. as...grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln." It is not diflicult to pereeive the basis of this sudden and world-wide fame, nor rash to prediet its indefinite... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - Journalists - 1890 - 676 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Henry Woodfin Grady - African Americans - 1890 - 302 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier ; for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | 1890 - 514 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier; for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - Journalists - 1800 - 338 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...the majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham .JLincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues... | |
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But from the union of these colonists, Puritans and Cavaliers, from the straightening of their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended within... 
