The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea |
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Page 65
... seen because I could not fail from my position to observe it ; the door side of the proscenium box and the stage were all within the direct and oblique lines of my sight . How long I watched the play after entering I do not know . It ...
... seen because I could not fail from my position to observe it ; the door side of the proscenium box and the stage were all within the direct and oblique lines of my sight . How long I watched the play after entering I do not know . It ...
Page 67
... seen to spring from the box on the stage beneath , some twelve feet distant . As the intruder struck the stage , he fell forward , but soon gathered himself up and turned , erect , in full view of the audience . With singular audacity ...
... seen to spring from the box on the stage beneath , some twelve feet distant . As the intruder struck the stage , he fell forward , but soon gathered himself up and turned , erect , in full view of the audience . With singular audacity ...
Page 70
... seen upon the President's face an expression more genial and pleasing . About fifteen minutes before the decease , Mrs. Lincoln came into the room , and threw herself upon her dying husband's body . She was allowed to remain there only ...
... seen upon the President's face an expression more genial and pleasing . About fifteen minutes before the decease , Mrs. Lincoln came into the room , and threw herself upon her dying husband's body . She was allowed to remain there only ...
Page 78
... seen what was coming it would not have chosen for President a man of Mr. Lincoln's inexperience and peculiar type of character . But if his party was to succeed , we doubt whether foresight and deliberation would have made so good a ...
... seen what was coming it would not have chosen for President a man of Mr. Lincoln's inexperience and peculiar type of character . But if his party was to succeed , we doubt whether foresight and deliberation would have made so good a ...
Page 83
... seen that forgiveness meant assassination — that clemency meant death , that even the sick man whom the providence of God had spared for a season , was to be murdered on his sick - bed as a result of the rebellion - perhaps he would ...
... seen that forgiveness meant assassination — that clemency meant death , that even the sick man whom the providence of God had spared for a season , was to be murdered on his sick - bed as a result of the rebellion - perhaps he would ...
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