 | 1920 - 850 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...not in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale, I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly...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 էջ
...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 plainly...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,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - 1864 - 462 էջ
...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...of three years* struggle, the nation's condition is m>t what either party, or any man devised, or expected. Ood alone can claim it. Whither it Is tending... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 206 էջ
...difficulties might well have appalled and would doubtless have foiled a statesman of the Napoleonic type. " I claim not to have controlled events, but confess "...now wills the removal of a great " wrong, and wills that we of the North shall pay fairly " for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will "... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 էջ
...well have appalled and would doubt less have foiled a statesman of the Napoleonic type. " I claimed not to have controlled events, but confess " plainly...now wills the removal of a great " wrong, and wills that we of the North shall pay fairly " for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will "... | |
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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 devised or expected. God alone can claim it. 
