 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. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, . at the end of three...any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Where it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 454 pages
...no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim, not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as 30 %vell as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...remarkable the closing sentences : " 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 cither party or any man devised or expected. God aloue can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 pages
...not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events controlled me. Now, at the end of the three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills now the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity ; I aim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...what either party or any man devised or expected. THB WORDS OF LINCOLN 41 fairly for our complicity in that great wrong, impartial history will find... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 174 pages
...devised or expected. " God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills now the removal of a 'great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the Southj shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new causes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain." Compare this passage with any of the extended references Burke makes to himself in this speech. Note... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 692 pages
...OPENING OF THE IRISH CAMPAIGN (1868) ' I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, in... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 690 pages
...OPENING OF THE IRISH CAMPAIGN (1868) ' I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, in... | |
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