Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should 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;... A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 4361872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 396 pages
...whole, for its complicity in the evil of slavery. Lincoln's second inaugural address (4 March 1865) Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude,...answered fully. The almighty has his own purposes. 'Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom... | |
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 400 pages
...war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the couse of the conflict might cease with, or even before,...answered fully. The almighty has his own purposes. 'Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom... | |
| Richard John Neuhaus - 2001 - 148 pages
...astounding." Then come the extraordinary words that better educated Americans know almost by heart: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!"... | |
| Carl Sandburg - 2002 - 804 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comcth!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of... | |
| Gleaves Whitney - 2003 - 496 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
| Franklin Aretas Haskell - 2002 - 128 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
| G. David Garson - 2001 - 366 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe uHIo the world because of offenses: for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by... | |
| E. Melanie Dupuis - 2002 - 323 pages
...North believed that God was on their side, that they each were the beneficiaries of God's providence: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!"... | |
| Dan McKanan - 2002 - 312 pages
...incorporated it into his powerful Second Inaugural Address.101 Both sides in the war, he noted then, "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes."102 Lincoln has been almost universally lauded for the sentiment expressed in this passage.... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but -woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
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