 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
 | R. Guy M'Clellan - 1875 - 716 pages
...the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing 1 their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but...has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses 1 for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by •whom the offense cometh... | |
 | M. Josephine Warren - 1879 - 400 pages
...less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, and each invoked his aid against the other. It may seem strange that...has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purpose. " Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 264 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has...offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe unto the man by whom the offence cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 260 pages
...bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has...offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe unto the man by whom the offence cometh.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one... | |
 | George B. Herbert - 1884 - 422 pages
...fame Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem stranee that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance...has His own purposes, 'Woe unto the world because of LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL. 393 offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe unto that... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 536 pages
...the same God, and , each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread...His own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe unto that man by whom the offense cometh.'... | |
 | William Osborn Stoddard - 1884 - 716 pages
...to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread...His own purposes. ' 'Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe unto that man by whom the offense cometh.'... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - 1884 - 540 pages
...against the other. It may seem strange that any men should ask a just God's assistance in wringingtheir bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let...His own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe unto that man by whom the offense cometh.'... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1887 - 492 pages
...portion of this address : — Lincoln's « Neither party expected for the war the magnitude inaugural or the duration which it has already attained. Neither...but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.' If \ve shall suppose that American slavery is one of these offences, which, in the providence of God,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1888 - 602 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...Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh." If we shall suppose... | |
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