 Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 4361872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 pages
...wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we may not be judged. The prayers of both could not be answered....has His own purposes. 'Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!'... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 396 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted...his own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - 1895 - 606 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed iu, right to do more than to restrict the territorial...fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto th« world because of offences ! for it must needs be that offences come ; but woe to that man by whom... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cense with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease....that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty bus His own purposes. ' Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; hut let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers...offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comcth.' If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 422 pages
...of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 pages
...strengthen, perpetuate, and ext< nd this interest was the object for which the insurgents would '.end the Union, even by war; while the government claimed...has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses ! for it must needs be that offenses come : but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...other. It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing his bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let...His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."... | |
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