 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...parties in regard to the magnitude of the war and the destruction of its " cause." " Each," he said, " looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding." Alluding to the facts that both combatants read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, that the... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 274 pages
...Government claimed right to no more than restrict the territorial enlargement of it. ... Both parties read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and...strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's ass'stance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not that... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 400 pages
...than restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - United States - 1880 - 434 pages
...Address, on the 4th of March, 1865, fairly stated the positions of the two parties in the Civil War : ' ' Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither...anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less... | |
 | Orators - 1881 - 710 pages
...to restrict the tf rritorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the confl'tt might cease, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1882 - 582 pages
...to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither...conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier tri amph, and a result less fandamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - English language - 1882 - 136 pages
...his own special duties to discharge. Everybody knows how disagreeable it is to have nothing to do. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other. Every man desireth to live long, but no man would be old. How is it with me, when every noise appals... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...reunite the nation. His address stressed the similarities between the North and the South — that they "both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God"— and it cautioned the North against feeling superior. "Let us judge not," he says, "that we be not judged."... | |
 | James Tatum - History - 2004 - 254 pages
...on the war we see at the opening of the Iliad- "Neither part expected for the war the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding." His own war would soon lead to results equally fundamental and astounding for Lincoln himself, results... | |
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Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and... 
