| 1920 - 850 páginas
...bewildering intricacy; the careworn figure of the President is left sitting at the centre and saying, ' I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me'; and in no book (unless it be the masterly little volume which Major Putnam wrote for his sons) is there... | |
| 1910 - 964 páginas
...they are within his reach. Said Abraham Lincoln, 'I claim not to have controlled events, but confess that events have controlled me. Now at the end of...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... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 páginas
...He appeared to himself rather as an instrument. " I claim not," he once said in this connection, " to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." In 1864, when a petition was sent to him from some children that there should be no more child slaves,... | |
| 1865 - 810 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claun it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 páginas
...not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own saga-- city. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 páginas
...was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess...what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled eTents, but confess plainly that events have controlled me....what either party, or any man devised, or expected, God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 páginas
...tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but con fan plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the...of three years* struggle, the nation's condition is m>t what either party, or any man devised, or expected. Ood alone can claim it. Whither it Is tending... | |
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