 | Emily Hazen Reed - New Orleans (La.) - 1868 - 392 pages
...the mischief he is inflicting on. his country. Pardon me if I read a brief lesson: "The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our cane is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.... | |
 | Joel Parker - Constitutional law - 1869 - 118 pages
...a brief lesson which seems as if written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. " ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present . The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...administration. He saw then, what the President has finally discovered and told us in his late message, that " the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present; " that "as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew;" and that "we must disenthrall ourselves,... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...we are going through on this line if it takes three years more." From his second annual message : " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Bookbinding - 1873 - 462 pages
...we are going through on this line if it takes three years more." From his second annual message : " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 448 pages
...if I read a brief lesson, which seems written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act .... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...concert. It is not, " can any of us imagine better ?" but " can we all do better ?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " can we do...the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better?'' but •• can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs ''can we do...The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the storm) present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1134 pages
...by concert. It ia not "can any of us imagine better?" but "can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs "can we do...the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...concert. " It is not, ' Can any of us imagine better ? ' but, ' Can we all do better ? ' Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, ' Can we do...the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. 
