 | James Tatum - History - 2004 - 254 pages
...inaugural in 1 865 is a concise commentary on the war we see at the opening of the Iliad- "Neither part expected for the war the magnitude, or the duration,...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding." His own war would soon lead to results equally fundamental and astounding for Lincoln himself, results... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - History - 2003 - 652 pages
...written, "Judge not lest ye be judged." A. LINCOLN. 6. From the Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier trjumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same... | |
 | Heather Whitestone-McCallum, Angela Elwell Hunt - Religion - 2003 - 216 pages
...later, a month before the end of the War, in his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln publicly admitted: Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. . . . Both [North and South] read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...the war galloping away from the comparatively limited Enlightenment parameters of cause and effect. "Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained," Lincoln continued. "Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding."... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...purpose between the Almighty and them" (CW 8:356). Here is the most memorable passage in that speech: Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. . . . Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or...result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...Civil War and Reconstruction 687 right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude,...result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange... | |
 | Ged Martin - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...whole of American society when he reviewed the course of the Civil War and the fate of slavery in 1865: 'Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude,...easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.'4 Ignorance of the problems that would arise helps to explain the launching of massive... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...his speech was printed 93 on, "all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. . . . "Neither party expected for the war the magnitude,...or even before, the conflict itself should cease. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other."... | |
 | William Charles Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 332 pages
...claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it." The president declared: "Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude,...Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier... | |
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Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and... 
