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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,... "
Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for ... - Page 91
by John Swett - 1868 - 230 pages
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...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...we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the...
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Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900

David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...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...we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the...
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Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in ...

David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...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...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 fully....
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Character for Life: An American Heritage: Profiles of Great Men and Women of ...

Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...God: and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask just God's assistance in wringing their bread from...we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered: that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes."39 THE EMANCIPATION...
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask ajust God's assistance in wringing their bread from the...we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. (8.332-333) Rather than merely conclude that there...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A

Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just (rod's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat...we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered ; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto the...
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Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 273 pages
...squaring off in the Super Bowl. Then things turn mischievous: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their...faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged." Know what that is? A zinger—a subtle, high-minded, morally superior zinger. I glance back at the...
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From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics

Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 500 pages
...same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. [18] It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their...faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. [19] The prayers of both could not be answered. [20] That of neither has been answered fully. [21]...
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Sins Of The Parents: Politics Of National Apologies In The U.S.

Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...then ultimately backs away and refrains from human judgment: "It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just god's assistance in wringing their...men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged."76 It must be remembered that Lincoln's political purpose in the speech is "to do all which...
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2003 Lectures

Civilization - 2004 - 494 pages
...God's support, although he could not refrain from adding: '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.' No one, Lincoln went on, truly knows God's will. God, indeed, may wish the war to continue — and...
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