 | Norman Hapgood - Presidents - 1899 - 478 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." Yet he found this no easy position to... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. XI. THE SECOND... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 pages
...view: " . . .At the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." before the people in a few solemn, beautiful... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain." Compare this passage with any of the extended references Burke makes to himself in this speech. Note... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest ind revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN. When Mr. Lincoln's... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. The Sanitary Commission,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. [Letter to Mrs. Horace Mann, Washington,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. [Letter to Mrs. Horace Mann, Washington,... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...Controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Selections from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1906 - 476 pages
...controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim...that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO MRS. HORACE... | |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is... 
