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" Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not,... "
Great Debates in American History: The Civil War - Page 278
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The Lives and Deeds of Our Self-made Men

Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, and each invoke his aid against the other. It may seem strange that...of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully....
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Abraham Lincoln

John Carroll Power - 1873 - 432 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier trinmph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes...of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — those of neither have been answered fully....
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Analytical Fourth [-sixth] Reader: Containing Practical Directions for ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...fundamental and astounding. 6. Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, and each invoked His aid against the other. It may seem strange that...of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered — that of neither haa been answered fully....
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The Presidents and Their Administrations: A Handbook of Political Parties ...

Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invoke His aid against the other. It may seem strange that...of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither had been answered fully....
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Young Folks' History of the United States

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - History - 1875 - 394 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. " Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes...other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully....
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The Annals of Kansas

Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes...other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully....
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Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in ...

David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes...of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both should [sic; Lincoln said "could" — eds.] not be answered. That...
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And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War

Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. ..Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes...of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully....
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...alienated citizens in the South. There were no unbridgeable differences, he insisted: "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes...of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully....
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Assassination Vacation

Sarah Vowell - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 273 pages
...were just a couple of football teams squaring off in the Super Bowl. Then things turn mischievous: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask...of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged." Know what that is? A zinger—a subtle, high-minded, morally superior zinger. I glance...
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