Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the... Abraham Lincoln - Page 250by Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Herbert Mitgang - Drama - 1982 - 68 pages
...taking time. Plainly, the central idea of secession is the very essence of anarchy. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other;... | |
| Paula Marantz Cohen - Performing Arts - 2001 - 1286 pages
...now only partially surtendered, would not be surtendered at all by the other. 4 "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...from each other, nor build an impassable wall between 30 them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each... | |
| Waldo W. Braden - History - 1993 - 132 pages
...fervent play upon consubstantiality to a high pitch when he dramatically stated: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other;... | |
| Wai Chee Dimock - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 268 pages
...Congress (1862). Pointing to the dictates of that allegorical body, Lincoln reasoned, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other;... | |
| Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...that manifest, Lincoln persisted in the belief. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate," he claimed. "We cannot remove our respective sections from each...other, nor build an impassable wall between them." He argued: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory... | |
| Priscilla Wald - History - 1995 - 418 pages
...permanent geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other;... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other;... | |
| Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 694 pages
...explanation. He quoted from his inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but... | |
| Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but... | |
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