 | Edwin Markham - 1911 - 508 páginas
...fall upon an abler man. Trusting to an Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of these my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." When once Virginia had joined, she was plunged into the very thick of secession. Anxious to commit... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - 790 páginas
...an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." Thus, passing into the service of his native State in the dire hour of her need, Lee was appointed... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1911 - 784 páginas
...the object for which it was placed there should fail." conscience, and the aid of my fellow citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." Thus, passing into the service of his native State in the dire hour of her need, Lee was appointed... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 538 páginas
...assigned me by your partiality. I would have much preferred that your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." Thus, passing into the service of his native State in the dire hour of her need, Lee was appointed... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 544 páginas
...assigned me by your partiality. I would have much preferred that your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." Thus, passing into the service of his native State in the dire hour of her need, Lee was appointed... | |
 | Virginia. Dept. of public instruction - 1912 - 114 páginas
...assigned me by your partiality. I would have much preferred had your choice fallen on an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience,...whose behalf alone, will I ever again draw my sword." (APPLAUSE). THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE. Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, Flashed the sword of... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1912 - 542 páginas
...assigned me by your partiality. I would have much preferred that your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." Thus, passing into the service of his native State in the dire hour of her need, Lee was appointed... | |
 | Thomas Roane Barnes Wright - 1912 - 222 páginas
...an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State,...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." "Thus came Kobert E. Lee to the State of his birth and to the people of his blood in their hour of... | |
 | North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913 - 644 páginas
...of that State, General Lee said: "I would have preferred your choice had fallen upon an abler man. Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience,...whose behalf, alone will I ever again draw my sword." He was in Texas on frontier duty until a few days before Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, in command of... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1915 - 450 páginas
...address before the convention, assembled in Richmond, accepting the trust, he closed with these words: "Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience...whose behalf alone will I ever again draw my sword." On May 23, 1861, the people of Virginia by a vote of 125,000 to 20,000 ratified the ordinance of secession,... | |
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Trusting in Almighty God, an approving conscience, and the aid of my fellow-citizens, I devote myself to the service of my native State, in whose behalf alone, will I ever again draw my sword. 
