 | Literature - 1920 - 850 pages
...bewildering intricacy; the careworn figure of the President is left sitting at the centre and saying, ' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; and in no book (unless it be the masterly little volume which Major Putnam wrote for his sons) is there... | |
 | American essays - 1910 - 964 pages
...they are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, 'I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of...what either party or any man desired or expected.' There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds events as the sculptor... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...He appeared to himself rather as an instrument. " I claim not," he once said in this connection, " to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." In 1864, when a petition was sent to him from some children that there should be no more child slaves,... | |
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...truth. " I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have...nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claun it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...the truth. I add a word, which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have...Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 514 pages
...the truth." I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have...nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - History - 1864 - 492 pages
...the truth." I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have...nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own saga-- city. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1864 - 518 pages
...telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled eTents, but confess plainly that events have controlled me....nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected, God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...ANTI-SL AVERT GROWTH. C57 I claim not to have controlled events, bnt confess plainly that events liuve Greeley l>erty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is... 
