If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible... Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services - Page 194by Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove,...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
| Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove,...terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
| Jonathan Foreman - History - 2005 - 112 pages
...one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove,...this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
| Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 500 pages
...one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove,...this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
| John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...the combatants, as though it were a responsibility to prosecute it as well as a punishment to endure: "[H]e gives to both North and South, this terrible...as the woe due to those by whom the offence came." It may be supposed, Lincoln argues, that as instrumentalities of Providence, the North and the South... | |
| Jim Cullen - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 292 pages
...blame not only to a slave-holding South, but also to a complacent and sinful North, he argued that God "gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came." And he ended his address with an invocation concurrent with that of "Born in the USA": With malice... | |
| Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 390 pages
...solutions to the problem of the twentieth century, the color line, as we enter the twenty-first. If he gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
| John Durham Peters - Philosophy - 2010 - 318 pages
...ridiculously wasteful Civil War, believing, as he put it in his second inaugural address, that God gave "to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came," is perhaps the greatest modern representative, but Marcus Aurelius fits as well. Or... | |
| Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must need come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern... | |
| Ernest Pertwee - Self-Help - 2006 - 281 pages
...one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove,...those by whom the offence came, shall we discern there any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him... | |
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