 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 828 str.
...the federal authority. Lincoln opened the canvass with the following revolutionary proposition : " If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, "we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now in the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 564 str.
...American orations, he modelled the beginning of his speech after Webster's exordium.4 Lincoln began : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 str.
...his confidential friends. He wanted their opinion in regard to it. These the opening sentences : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 str.
...His clear statement or prologue to the main matter is seen to advantage in this oft-quoted speech : "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then judge better what to do, and how to do it. We are now far on into the fifth year since a policy... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 str.
...his confidential friends. He wanted their opinion in regard to it. These the opening sentences : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 str.
...coterie of his friends and admirers, and read it to them. The opening paragraph was as follows: — "If we could first know where we are, and whither...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 str.
...his confidential friends. He wanted their opinion in regard to it. These the opening sentences : " If we could first know where we are and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 str.
...should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. From Speech at Springfield, June 16, 1858. F we could first know where we are and whither we are...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 268 str.
...cannot stand." On Lincoln's Nomination to the United States Senate. Springfield, Illinois. June 17, 1858 If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 str.
...NAMED AS THEHI CANDIDATE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. Mr, President and Gentlemen of the Convention : If we could first know where we are, and whither we...tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident... | |
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. 
