 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.  Annual Register - Side 230redigert av - 1863Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 384 sider
...if I read a brief lesson, which seems written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.... | |
 | Samuel Gibbs French - 1901 - 452 sider
...Harper's Ferry, and for which he was apotheosized and numbered among the saints. Mr. Lincoln said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Our case is new. We must think anew, and act anew.... | |
 | 1920 - 1124 sider
...this from Abraham Lincoln spoken just preceding the reconstruction period following the Civil War. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must arise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 sider
...concert. It is not, "Can any of us imagine better?" but, "Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, " Can we do...the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act... | |
 | Oliver Wilcox Norton - 1903 - 400 sider
...last best hope of earth." I do hope that Congress will heartily support his plan, and remembering that "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" will "rise to the occasion." I think I wrote to you at Warrenton what I thought of McClellan's removal,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 598 sider
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 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 412 sider
...imagine better?" but, "Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, "Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are...the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 sider
...of us imagine b"etter ?' buf, 'Can we all do better?' «j Object Whatsoever-ls pcrsslfile; stflTfnV question recurs, 'Can we do better ?' The dogmas of...inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled highjvyith *dj ffkulty^jinj^w.ejn™^ rise^witfr ffie occasion. As our case is new, so wejnust think... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 sider
...imagine better?" but, "Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, " Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are...inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is plied high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think... | |
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