Sentence examples for abraham from inspiring English sources

Immediately I thought, "If one's good, why not all four?" Hence my first novel, O Father Abraham, How Did You Get So Gladsome?

A life-sized animatronic Abraham Lincoln is among the historical figures and tableau scenes from a Gettysburg wax museum set to be auctioned, months after the town celebrated the 150th anniversary of his Gettysburg Address.

They will need the kind of faith Abraham and his son demonstrated.

They live as they have done for thousands of years – before the internet, the world wars, the United States, the Tudors, Christ, Aristotle or Abraham.

The second lies in Abraham Lincoln's determination that "… government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

One detail in particular stands out for Abraham.

On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, historians and everyday Americans are gathering to ponder what the Gettysburg Address has meant to the nation.

Not only was it an anguished requiem for a doomed affair, but it was also performed by none other than Abraham Lincoln.

One hundred and fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best-known and most beloved speeches in American history.

But there is one speech which does all of these – sing, sear, speak and soar – sometimes simultaneously and, as a result, stands alone: President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, delivered on the East Portico of the White House on March 4, 1865: It is my favorite political speech of all time.

In some quarters, the reception has been so adulatory that you could have been fooled into thinking that he had won himself a place alongside Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of great orators and the Gettysburg Address now had a rival in the Bloomberg Speech.