 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1920 - 324 páginas
...rising to the demands of the hour which we should not expect from orators or men of the schools. This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness...being for all time the historical keynote of this war; in it a people seemed to speak in the sublimely simple utterance of ruder times. What will Europe think... | |
 | 1922 - 818 páginas
...capacity for rising to the demands o£ the hour, which we should not expect from men of the schools. This inaugural strikes me, in its grand simplicity and...being for all time the historical keynote of this war; in it a people seemed to speak in the sublimely simple utterance of ruder times. What will Europe think... | |
 | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson - 1998 - 437 páginas
...greater occasion he has shown a capacity for rising to the demands of the hour." Adams concluded, "This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness...being for all time the historical keynote of this war."33 Lincoln did notice Frederick Douglass in the crowd. It was the first time African Americans... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...lawyer is one of the wonders of the day," Lt. Col. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., told his father. 'This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness...all time the historical keynote of this war." The vice president did not fare as well. Before Lincoln spoke, Johnson, who had consumed too much whiskey... | |
 | Ronald C. White - 2002 - 256 páginas
...greater occasion he has shown a capacity for rising to the demands of the hour." Adams concluded, "This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness...being for all time the historical keynote of this war."8 Lincoln's audience, even when standing in the same location, facing the west wing of the Capitol,... | |
 | William Charles Harris - 2004 - 332 páginas
...for rising to the demands of the hour which we should not expect from orators or men of the schools. The inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and...being for all time the historical keynote of this war."50 Most conservative Unionists and Republicans praised the religious tone of the address. The... | |
 | Hans Louis Trefousse - 2005 - 204 páginas
...rising to the demands of the hour which we should not expect from orators or men of the schools. This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness...being for all time the historical keynote of this war . . . ." Noah Brooks commented on its "noble words, which might be printed in letters of gold," and... | |
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This inaugural strikes me in its grand simplicity and directness as being for all time the historical keynote of this war; in it a people seemed to speak in the sublimely simple utterance of ruder times. 