 The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On...  The Gettysburg Speech, and Other Papers - Էջ 77Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 100 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | James Boyd White - 1994 - 348 էջ
...different terms his earlier invocation of the difference between the present inauguration and his first: "On the occasion corresponding to this four years...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it." Who are these "alls," the reader asks: The North? Or North and South?... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 էջ
...trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered... | |
 | Fletcher Pratt - 1997 - 466 էջ
...trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all our thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert... | |
 | Frances H. Kennedy - 1998 - 536 էջ
...trust. reasonahly satisfactory and encouraging to alt. With high hope for the future. no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral address was heing delivered... | |
 | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson - 1998 - 442 էջ
...begins the shift in tone and content that will give this address its singular and memorable meaning. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago,...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil-war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 էջ
...trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding...All dreaded it - all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union... | |
 | Hugh Tulloch - 1999 - 276 էջ
...on the human agencies of the Confederacy, when he recalled his first presidential address of 1861. While the inaugural address was being delivered from...were in the city seeking to destroy it without war and seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiations. Both parties 104 deprecated war,... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 էջ
...trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding...anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 էջ
...impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was heing delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving...insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it with war — seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 էջ
...first Republican president. "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago," Lincoln states, "all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending...civil war. All dreaded it — all sought to avert it." At Lincoln's first inauguration, all citizens, including those who now fought against the Union, feared... | |
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