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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... fact that Seward was an Episcopalian . The chief stylistic trait which sets these pieces apart from Lincoln's other writings is the use of words and phrases in pairs , as for example in the following passage from the " Proclamation of a ...
... fact that Seward was an Episcopalian . The chief stylistic trait which sets these pieces apart from Lincoln's other writings is the use of words and phrases in pairs , as for example in the following passage from the " Proclamation of a ...
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... fact . The dispute was upon the question of fact , whether the Lecompton Constitution had been fairly formed by the people or not . Mr. Buchanan and his friends have not contended for the contrary principle any more than the Douglas men ...
... fact . The dispute was upon the question of fact , whether the Lecompton Constitution had been fairly formed by the people or not . Mr. Buchanan and his friends have not contended for the contrary principle any more than the Douglas men ...
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... fact is substantially true ; but does it prove the issue ? If it does , then in case we should , without change of ... fact that we get no votes in your section , is a fact of your making , and not of ours . And if there be fault in that ...
... fact is substantially true ; but does it prove the issue ? If it does , then in case we should , without change of ... fact that we get no votes in your section , is a fact of your making , and not of ours . And if there be fault in that ...
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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