 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 412 pages
...feelingly referred to the subject of the emancipation about to be consummated by Presidential decree: " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise to the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Fellow-citizens, we cannot... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 pages
...all do better ? " Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, " Can we do better T " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled nigh with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 428 pages
...Letter to Charles D. Drake and Others, Oct. 5,1863, vol. IX, p. /57. QUIET PAST AND STORMY PRESENT The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 131. No MENDING FOR BROKEN EGGS Broken eggs... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1899 - 136 pages
...compensated emancipation. I cannot forbear quoting some of his words. In concluding his appeal he said: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthral... | |
 | 1920 - 1124 pages
...this from Abraham Lincoln spoken just preceding the reconstruction period following the Civil War. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must arise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." The Executives of... | |
 | Oliver Wilcox Norton - 1903 - 400 pages
...last best hope of earth." I do hope that Congress will heartily support his plan, and remembering that "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present" will "rise to the occasion." I think I wrote to you at Warrenton what I thought of McClellan's removal,... | |
 | Ella Lyman Cabot - 1906 - 466 pages
...in Lincoln's appeal to Congress for the acceptance of his plan for emancipation with compensation. " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise to meet it. As our case is new so must we think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 pages
...of us imagine b"etter ?' buf, 'Can we all do better?' «j Object Whatsoever-ls pcrsslfile; stflTfnV question recurs, 'Can we do better ?' The dogmas of...inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled highjvyith *dj ffkulty^jinj^w.ejn™^ rise^witfr ffie occasion. As our case is new, so wejnust think... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...imagine better?" but, "Can we all do better?" Object whatsoever is possible, still the question occurs, " Can we do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past are...inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is plied high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...of clergy ; the Rev. Dr. Gurley, present, the relater. The Quiet Past Versus the Stormy Present. " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." Presidential Message, Sept., 1862. " The Union First and Foremost — Slavery Afterwards." In Lincoln's... | |
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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. 
