 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.  Hearings - Стр. 215авторы: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1971Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1920 - Страниц: 850
...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... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - Страниц: 946
...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 - Страниц: 810
...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 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,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - Страниц: 544
...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 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... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1864 - Страниц: 96
...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 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - Страниц: 200
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - Страниц: 514
...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 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... | |
 | Frank Crosby - 1865 - Страниц: 496
...of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress." Amnaty Proclamation, December 8, 1863. "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Letter toA.G. llodgss, April 4, 1S64. " With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - Страниц: 878
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - Страниц: 912
...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 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... | |
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