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... Lincoln's " painful imbecility , " and even after he became a member of his cabinet is said to have informed a visitor who presented some order from the President , that Lincoln was a " damned fool . " Lincoln's comment , thoroughly ...
... Lincoln's " painful imbecility , " and even after he became a member of his cabinet is said to have informed a visitor who presented some order from the President , that Lincoln was a " damned fool . " Lincoln's comment , thoroughly ...
Page 131
... Lincoln , before 1861 , dis- play anything of real greatness . The debates with Douglas were those of a clever , one may almost say supreme , politician , but they went no further . Lincoln at this time was essentially the politician ...
... Lincoln , before 1861 , dis- play anything of real greatness . The debates with Douglas were those of a clever , one may almost say supreme , politician , but they went no further . Lincoln at this time was essentially the politician ...
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... Lincoln was unavoidable and the belief grew and ex- tended that Lincoln's death was the greatest loss that the South could have suffered . He would have been able , as no other man , to check the radicals in Congress and , failing in ...
... Lincoln was unavoidable and the belief grew and ex- tended that Lincoln's death was the greatest loss that the South could have suffered . He would have been able , as no other man , to check the radicals in Congress and , failing in ...
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Ancient and Modern Nicolaas Van den Arend | 14 |
Baileys Festus R B Steele | 26 |
Modern Novel The Ludwig Lewisohn 458 | 46 |
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