 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. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...  Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 170by John Wien Forney - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 696 pages
...OP THE IRISH CAMPAIGN (1868) 'I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that event* have controlled me. Now at the end of three years'...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM Liscor.v (1864). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, in... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 692 pages
...OPENING OF THE IRISH CAMPAIGN (1868) 'I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...the nation's condition is not what either party or iiny man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton,... | |
 | John Morley - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 1144 pages
...(1S6S) • I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled uie. Now at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1804). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, in... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...themselves drawn along by their age. T CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess •*• plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) TN public life a man of elevated mind does not make -*•... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...no compliments to my own sagacity. l claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...what either party or any man devised or expected, (lod alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. lf God now wills the removal of a great... | |
 | Paul Selby - Slavery - 1909 - 40 pages
...he said to Mr. Hodges of Kentucky: "I claim not to huve controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, unrt wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Age - 1910 - 358 pages
...in his published writings. Thus : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, God wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - Literature - 1910 - 296 pages
...are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 306 pages
...are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | Presidents - 1910 - 178 pages
...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. 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 Tiot what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending... | |
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