Flashlights of Abraham LincolnAngelus Publishing Company, 1921 - 92 strani |
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Stran 83 - It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us 'judge not, that we be not judged.' "The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. "The Almighty has his own
Stran 59 - slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing a slave, I would do it, and if I
Stran 48 - ever return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. "Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Stran 88 - Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells; Rise up! For you the flag is flung For you the bugle trills. For you, they call, the swaying mass Their eager faces turning. Here Captain! Dear father— This arm beneath your head. It is some dream that on the deck You've
Stran 69 - be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, That from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion.
Stran 89 - voyage closed and done From fearful trip, the Victor Ship Comes in with object won. Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead. This was
Stran 88 - The prize we sought is won. The port is near, the bells I hear, The vessel grim and daring. But Oh, heart, heart, heart! Oh, the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold
Stran 84 - bind up the Nations' wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan. "To do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves
Stran 58 - One still remains—its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election, can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and
Stran 80 - Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own and his children's liberty. "Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe