| 1920 - 850 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 pages
...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...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South,... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...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... | |
| Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 pages
...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... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1864 - 96 pages
...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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 518 pages
...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,... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - 1865 - 194 pages
...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...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South,... | |
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