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 164
... received his license to practice January 1 , 1842. He moved to Mt. Sterling in Brown County the same year , and , if one may draw inferences from Lincoln's letter , entertained highly optimistic hopes for his future in ar- guing cases ...
... received his license to practice January 1 , 1842. He moved to Mt. Sterling in Brown County the same year , and , if one may draw inferences from Lincoln's letter , entertained highly optimistic hopes for his future in ar- guing cases ...
Page 232
... received ; and I hardly need say , it gives unalloyed pleasure . I now almost regret writing the serious , long faced letter , I wrote yesterday ; but let the past as nothing be . Go it while you're young ! I write this in the confusion ...
... received ; and I hardly need say , it gives unalloyed pleasure . I now almost regret writing the serious , long faced letter , I wrote yesterday ; but let the past as nothing be . Go it while you're young ! I write this in the confusion ...
Page 668
... received , but has not yet been formally adopted . I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordenskiold , which vessel was , in May , 1861 , prevented by the commander of ...
... received , but has not yet been formally adopted . I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordenskiold , which vessel was , in May , 1861 , prevented by the commander of ...
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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