 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 desired or expected.  Abraham Lincoln, the Man of the People - Side 368av Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 433 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1920 - 850 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...is only because he 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...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 wrong, and wills... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 sider
...It is only because he 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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 sider
...it is only because he 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,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 sider
...ANTI-SL AVERT GROWTH. C57 I claim not to have controlled events, bnt confess plainly that events liuve Greeley l>erty or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 sider
...to his recent memorable letter to AG Hodges, Esq., already quoted, he will find this frank avowal: "I CLAIM NOT TO HAVE CONTROLLED EVENTS, BUT CONFESS PLAINLY THAT EVENTS HAVE CONTROLLED ME." This is but another laconic and happy way of expressing his purpose to follow the leadings of Divine... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - 1865 - 636 sider
...is only because he 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...nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected. God alone can claim it Whither it is tending seems, plain. If God now wills the... | |
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