 | Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 448 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...all the majesty and grace of this republic, Abraham Lincoln.5 He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier ; for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, 90 the first who comprehended within himself all the...majesty and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Jasper Leonidas McBrien - Patriotism - 1916 - 302 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this Republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the son of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Jasper Leonidas McBrien - Patriotism - 1916 - 300 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of this Republic—Abraham Lincoln. He was the son of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - Georgia - 1917 - 584 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended...majesty and grace of this Republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 680 pages
...crossing of their blood, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first to comprehend within himself all the strength and gentleness, all...majesty and grace of this Republic, Abraham Lincoln. He was the son of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 350 pages
...crossing of their blood, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first to comprehend within himself all the strength and gentleness, all...majesty and grace of this Republic, Abraham Lincoln. He was the son of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 458 pages
...their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, 5 all the majesty and grace of this Republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier,... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - American literature - 1919 - 636 pages
...purposes and the crossing of their blood — slow-perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American — the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and grace of this republic — Abraham Lincoln. He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent... | |
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But from the union of these colonists, Puritans and Cavaliers, from the straightening of their purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow perfecting through a century, came he who stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended within... 
