Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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... effect with the " Letter to Colonel Ellsworth's Parents , " May 25 , 1861 , or the " Letter to Fanny Mc- Cullough , " December 23 , 1862 . The differences between these three masterpieces are not differences in literary success and ...
... effect with the " Letter to Colonel Ellsworth's Parents , " May 25 , 1861 , or the " Letter to Fanny Mc- Cullough , " December 23 , 1862 . The differences between these three masterpieces are not differences in literary success and ...
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... effect is , according to legal tradition at least , to make every statement incontestably clear , whereas in The Book of Common Prayer the effect is primarily one of incantation . Ob- viously , the effect in Lincoln's proclamations is ...
... effect is , according to legal tradition at least , to make every statement incontestably clear , whereas in The Book of Common Prayer the effect is primarily one of incantation . Ob- viously , the effect in Lincoln's proclamations is ...
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... effect . I had no intention of injuring your personal or private char- acter or standing as a man or a gentleman ; and I did not then think , and do not now think that that article could produce or has pro- duced that effect against you ...
... effect . I had no intention of injuring your personal or private char- acter or standing as a man or a gentleman ; and I did not then think , and do not now think that that article could produce or has pro- duced that effect against you ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Copyright | |
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