 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is I will do it ! These are not, however, thp days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expecv a direct revelation. I must study the plain physical facts of the case, a«certnin what is possible,... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be just and right." Scriptures, is as clear as any other fact of his life, as thus appears, viz. : "In... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it! These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...The subject is difficult, and good men do not agree. " What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated ? I... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...difficult, and good men do not agree. For instance, four gentlemen of standing and intelligence, from New York, called as a delegation on business connected... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...difficult, and good men do not agree. For instance, four gentlemen of standing and intelligence, from New York, called as a delegation on business connected... | |
 | William James Potter - Sermons, American - 1895 - 474 pages
...interposition, — for, as he says, "these are not the days of miracles," — but through an earnest desire to "ascertain what is possible and learn what appears to be wise and right." Events are his instructors. The spirit of Almighty Justice, unfolding its high purpose more and more... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1899 - 594 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it Is, I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right." — Chicago Tribune, Sept. 23; Lincoln, Complete Works, vol. ii. p.' 234. civilization. After some... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...and learn what appears to be wise and right." The victory for which the President waited came on September 17. McClellan had followed Lee into Maryland,... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 276 pages
...know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is, I will do it. These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...and learn what appears to be wise and right." The victory for which the President waited came on September 17. McClellan had followed Lee into Maryland,... | |
 | Charles Hallan McCarthy - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 566 pages
...to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is I will do it! These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose...and learn what appears to be wise and right." The difficulties of the subject and the impossibility of even anti-slavery men, in or out of Congress,... | |
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These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible and learn what appears to be wise and right. 
