| 1917 - 920 páginas
...he said: "Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." Self-Denial. SELF-DENIAL. "And what," I said, "did you do during the Great War, Francesca?" "In the... | |
| 1865 - 810 páginas
...organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must...Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Bight or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed tliis ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability I had even... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed tliis ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability I had even... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 páginas
...law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? " By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 páginas
...organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution ? By general law, lii'e and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must...the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had even... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 páginas
...law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution? 9 By general law, life and limb must be protected. Yet often a limb must...but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the... | |
| Hiram Ketchum - 1864 - 80 páginas
...effect, affirms that it was impossible to keep this oath without losing the nation. He maintains " that measures otherwise unconstitutional, might become...Constitution through, the preservation of the nation. EIGHT OR WRONG," he declares, " I ASSUMED THIS GROUND, AND NOW AVOW IT." This ¡8 a bold avowal to... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 páginas
...preserve the Constitution? By general law, life and limb must be protected : yet often a limb must bo amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I feel that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the... | |
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