Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseLommis National Library Association, 1888 - 842 pages Written in 1864 by a political contemporary, this is a work of nineteenth-century American biographic literature. It contains Lincoln's most masterful speeches and writings, along with a contemporary history of the Civil War. |
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... fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the occasion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing ...
... fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the occasion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital but his hands , and with no immediate opportunities for commencing ...
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... fact , in alleging him to have been a grocery - keeper , though it might be no great sin had the statement been well founded . He added that , in truth , he had " never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . " The business of this ...
... fact , in alleging him to have been a grocery - keeper , though it might be no great sin had the statement been well founded . He added that , in truth , he had " never kept a grocery anywhere in the world . " The business of this ...
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... fact become reduced one - half . The wearisome marches , the delays , the privations and exposures , had proved to them that this service was no pastime , and that its romance was not what it seemed in the distance . They sickened of ...
... fact become reduced one - half . The wearisome marches , the delays , the privations and exposures , had proved to them that this service was no pastime , and that its romance was not what it seemed in the distance . They sickened of ...
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... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in the ...
... fact that he became , on returning home , a candidate for representative in the State Legislature , the election of which was close at hand . youth of twenty - three , and not at all generally known through the county , or able , in the ...
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... fact that Whig measures were not rightly shaped and executed by Democratic hands . Whig measures , framed and carried out by Democrats , have too often ended in a mere botch . At the same time , it is observable that these imper- fect ...
... fact that Whig measures were not rightly shaped and executed by Democratic hands . Whig measures , framed and carried out by Democrats , have too often ended in a mere botch . At the same time , it is observable that these imper- fect ...
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LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Joseph H. (Joseph Hartwell) 18 Barrett,Making of America Project No preview available - 2016 |
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