 He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1591887Full view - About this book
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...fertile counsel, his humanity (Abraham Lincoln) stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. We can still count as one of ourselves, with his honor and his sadness, with... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the center of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. JG Holland : Conscience, and not expediency, not temporary advantage, not popular applause, not the... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - President - 1901 - 550 pages
...molded by divine power to save a nation from perdition." Oliver Wendell Holmes characterized him as "the true representative of this continent; an entirely...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Bancroft wisely observed: "Lincoln thought always of mankind, as well as his own country, and served... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - Biography - 1901 - 1462 pages
...the true history of the American people in his time — the true representative of this continent — father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Lincoln, (BENJAMIN,) an American general, born in Hingham, Massachusetts, in January, 1733. He was... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...quickening his rearch by theirs ; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; lather of his country ; the pulse of twenty millions throbbing...his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by lu ongue. William C. Bryant, our venerable poet, composed the follow* in g immortal hymn for the obsequies... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; 10 slow with their slowness, quickening his march by...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. 15 insularity : narrowness and prejudice. From the first meaning, the state of being an island, we... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1903 - 504 pages
...epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; 10 slow with their slowness, quickening his march by...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. 15 insularity : narrowness and prejudice. From the first meaning, the state of beinq an island, we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 676 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; 10 slow with their slowness, quickening his march by...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. i5 insularity : narrowness and prejudice. From the first meaning, the state of being an island, we... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 296 pages
...He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; 10 slow with their slowness, quickening his march by...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. 1r> insularity : narrowness and prejudice. From the first meaning, the state of being an island, we... | |
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