| United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 páginas
...nation, and it was thus he conjured them to think well upon the fatal step they were about to take: " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 páginas
...Government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend ' it. " I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break, our bonds of affection. " The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 páginas
...peace ; so that the words, plain and simple as they are, are full of deep and melancholy music : " You can have no conflict without being yourselves...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 páginas
...registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one, to 4preserve, protect and defend' it. I am loth to close. We are...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cord of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| 1868 - 422 páginas
...government ; while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| Otis Frederick Reed Waite - 1869 - 320 páginas
...government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it.' "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...affection. "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
| Lawrence Augustus Gobright - 1869 - 424 páginas
...telegraphed. The President read his Inaugural Address in a clear, distinct voice, concluding as follows : " I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1888 - 990 páginas
...yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect...affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad... | |
| Charles Henry Hart - 1870 - 106 páginas
...all their old rights under the constitution, and closed with these words of warning and entreaty : most solemn one " to preserve, protect and defend...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone... | |
| 1916 - 1130 páginas
...greater pathetic power than the appeal to the South with which he closed his first inaugural : •• I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends....affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,... | |
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