...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, 1 trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. (Lincoln 792) This deliberate flatness may seem counterproductive. But Lincoln— a national leader...

...discern: recognize ascribe: see as belonging scourge: great suffering bond-man: slave unrequited: unpaid On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago,...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it— all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered...

...reasonably satisfactorily and encouraging to all. With hope for the future, no prediction in regards to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it-all sought to avert it. While the general address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to alL With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured." Lincoln saw no connection between the iustice of the Union's causes and the certainty of its victory....

...held in the second inaugural that "the progress of our arms ... is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured." Kazin's fascination with the second inaugural centers around the fact that Lincoln refrained from official...

...chiefly depends, is as weE known to the public as to myself ; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future,...were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. AE dreaded it ; all sought to avert it, While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place,...

...chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. . . . Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive;...