 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...Douglas, and its importance demands its insertion : Mu. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the flfth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...be given of it through any description or abbreviation. It must be given entire. Mr. Lincoln said: "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better jadge what to do, and how to do it. We are n<^-. iar into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...Douglas, and its importance demands its insertion : MB. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we enuld better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now fur into the fifth year, aince a policy... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - Cabinet officers - 1867 - 208 pages
...the slavery and anti-slavery controversy, Mr. Lincoln covers exactly the same ground, as follows : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it." Mr. Webster here used eighty-two words, of which twenty, almost a quarter, have more than one... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...is a stately and sonorous opening, majestic and poetical. Now compare it with Mr. Lincoln's synonym: "If we could first know where we are, and whither...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it." The thing could not have been said more shortly, more directly, more clearly, more strongly in... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 pages
...stately and sonorous opening, majestic and poetical. Now compare it with Mr. Lincoln's synonym : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it." The thing could not have been said more shortly, more directly, more clearly, more strongly in... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 606 pages
...it is worth quoting entire. It is as follows : "Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention: — If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...it is worth quoting entire. It is as follows : "Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention: — If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 pages
...historical, beginning with this remarkable exordium : " MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...historical, beginning with this remarkable exordium : " MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN ov THE CONVENTION : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. 
