 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - United States - 1866 - 566 pages
...hair's breadth" And earlier, on October 15th,. 1858, -At Alton, Illinois :— " They (the Fathers) did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality. They meant simply to declare the right , so that the enforcement of it must follow as fast as circumstances... | |
 | 1900 - 1070 pages
...they did consider all men created equal — equal in certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This they said...boon. They meant simply to declare the right so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set uj, a... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal with ' certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This they...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...speech of his at Springfield, delivered more than, a year before, as follows : ing that equality, or yet, that they were about to confer it immediately...boon. They meant simply to declare 'the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...they did consider all men created equal, equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. (Speech at Springfield,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert CHAP. v. the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they...said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert CHAP. v. the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 522 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal with "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they...said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert CHAP. v. the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they... | |
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This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon.... 
