Abraham Lincoln: An Eulogy, Delivered at Anamosa, Iowa, on the Day of the State Fast, April 27, 1865 (Classic Reprint)

Abraham Lincoln: An Eulogy, Delivered at Anamosa, Iowa, on the Day of the State Fast, April 27, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
0267484879
ISBN-13
9780267484874
Series
Abraham Lincoln
Category
Self-Help
Pages
22
Language
English
Published
2018-02
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
William G. Hammond

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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Eulogy, Delivered at Anamosa, Iowa, on the Day of the State Fast, April 27, 1865 No wish is more frequent, or more natural, to those who live in periods of great excitement, than that they might be placed, if only for an hour, far down the stream of. Futurity, and thus enabled to view the events and the men around them with the clear and impartial eye Of history. The change would be like rising from amid the smoke and roar of a fierce battle, where all is tumult, confusion and hurry, and where the keenest eye and the coolest brain can know nothing but the incidents of its own special locality, to some lofty post of observation, in whose serene atmosphere we can take in at a glance the whole field of conflict, perceive the purpose and the result of every movement, and clearly discern who and where are the master minds, the ruling spirits of the strife. But in the field of war and the field of history, such achievements are equally diffi cult. N 0 man, it has Often been said, ever saw a whole battle. It may be doubted whether any was ever sagacious enough to read the events and the men of his own time, among all the mists of prejudice, the cannon-roar of party strife, the shock of conflicting ideas and passions, so truly and impartially as after generations will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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