 Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 502by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...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 war, 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
...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... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...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 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
...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 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
...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 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... | |
 | Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...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 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
...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 therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers... | |
 | Robert R. Mathisen - United States - 2006 - 821 pages
...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 war, as the...ascribe to Him, Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God will that it continue,... | |
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