 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 560 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 sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were fused... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 456 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. [Loud and continued applause.] He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 504 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. [Loud and continued applause.] He was the son of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were... | |
 | Edgar Erastus Clark - Railroad conductors - 1906 - 1072 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... | |
 | Hugh M. Ruppersburg - 1994 - 593 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... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - History - 1995 - 493 pages
...Lincoln as the vibrant symbol not alone of reconciliation but of American character. Lincoln, he said, "comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of the republic. " He was, indeed, the first American, "the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, in whose ardent... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 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. [Loud and continued applause.} He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in his ardent nature were... | |
 | Ellwood Griscom (jr.) - Americanization - 1920 - 280 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 strength and gentleness, all the majesty and grandeur 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... 
