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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Page 127
... hope your melancholly [ sic ] bodings as to her early death , are not well founded . I even hope , that ere this reaches you , she will have returned with improved and still improving health ; and that you will have met her , and ...
... hope your melancholly [ sic ] bodings as to her early death , are not well founded . I even hope , that ere this reaches you , she will have returned with improved and still improving health ; and that you will have met her , and ...
Page 277
... hope of its realization . - May it indeed be realized ! Pharaoh's country was cursed with plagues , and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them more than four hundred ...
... hope of its realization . - May it indeed be realized ! Pharaoh's country was cursed with plagues , and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them more than four hundred ...
Page 454
... hope he will excuse me if I hunt out another charge very like this ; and if it should turn out that in hunting I should find that other , and it should turn out to be Judge Douglas himself who made it , I hope he will reconsider this ...
... hope he will excuse me if I hunt out another charge very like this ; and if it should turn out that in hunting I should find that other , and it should turn out to be Judge Douglas himself who made it , I hope he will reconsider this ...
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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