| 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... | |
| 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
...cannot face the truth. " I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim...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,... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 páginas
...cannot face the truth. I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim...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... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 páginas
...can not face the truth. I add a word, which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim...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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 páginas
...cannot face the truth." I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim...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... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 páginas
...cannot face tho truth." I add a word which was not in the verbal convermtfew. In telling this 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 end of three years* struggle, the nation's... | |
| 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 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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 páginas
...cannot face the truth." - aua a word which was not in the verbal conversation. In 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. Now at the end of three years' struggle,... | |
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