 Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different...  Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln - Page 67by Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 pages
...respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than... | |
 | Edward Millican - 292 pages
...consequences of secession: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. ... A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. . . . Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - 1993 - 272 pages
...surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other. between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory, after separation than... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. "First Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861 , reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p.... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 pages
...offered a domestic image to illustrate the stakes in keeping the Union whole: "A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the...either amicable or hostile, must continue between them" (Lincoln IV, 269). The interdiction of divorce in the Union "household" stoked the fires of reunion,... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 pages
...in all the states. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. The different parts of our country must remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 pages
...respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the...the different parts of our country cannot do this." On to the end. When he first addressed that solemn warning to the South there had been no fighting.... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 pages
...respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the...each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, cither amicable or hostile,... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 pages
...respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the...amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible then to make that intercourse more advantageous, or more satisfactory, after separation than... | |
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