 Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that...  Lectures and Sermons - Page 348by William James Potter - 1895 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Morley - 1903 - 1144 pages
...(1S6S) • I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled uie. Now at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1804). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton, in... | |
 | John Morley - 1903 - 692 pages
...(1868) 'I CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or iiny man desired or expected.' — ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864). WRITING to his brother-in-law, Lord Lyttelton,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...T CLAIM not to have controlled events, but confess •*• plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) TN public life a man of elevated mind does not make -*•... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 pages
...sagacity. l claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's...what either party or any man devised or expected, (lod alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. lf God now wills the removal of a great... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1909 - 40 pages
...Kentucky: "I claim not to huve controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, unrt wills that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 pages
...Thus : " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's...plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, God wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South shall pay fairly for our complicity... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 296 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1910 - 296 pages
...Abraham Lincoln, " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected." There spoke not the dignified statesman of the academic tradition who moulds... | |
 | 1910 - 178 pages
...sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is Tiot what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending... | |
 | Robert William McLaughlin - 1912 - 324 pages
...he says: "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. ' ' * And this simply means that in action they were guided by expediency. 1 Morley,... | |
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