 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing his bread from the sweat of other men's faces. But let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both should not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.... | |
 | Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 744 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses 1 for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.' If we shall... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither...His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh."... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has...his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come : but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.'... | |
 | Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That .of neither has...his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh."... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to the man by whom the offence cometh! [quoting... | |
 | Jonathan Foreman - History - 2005 - 112 pages
...sense that the bloodshed of the Civil War was God's inevitable punishment for the evil of slavery. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world...offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
..."let us judge not, that we be not judged," the penultimate paragraph of the address reads as follows: The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world...offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those... | |
 | Patrick Deneen - Political Science - 2009 - 389 pages
...he did throughout the course of the war — upon the significance of the war's duration and carnage: The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world...offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to the man from whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both should [sic; Lincoln said "could" — eds.] not be answered. That of neither has been answered...has his own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.... | |
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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not,... 
