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... gave life to him whose own life was such a puzzling enigma . " No man ever drew his infant life from a purer or more womanly bosom , " says J. G. Holland in his " Life of Abraham Lincoln , " and this he writes reverently after the most ...
... gave life to him whose own life was such a puzzling enigma . " No man ever drew his infant life from a purer or more womanly bosom , " says J. G. Holland in his " Life of Abraham Lincoln , " and this he writes reverently after the most ...
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... gave quiet heed , let the unfet- tered imagination supply to an equally silent soul . We may be sure they were not idle thoughts to which those two gave voice in the flickering shadows of those early spring evenings , the rough winds of ...
... gave quiet heed , let the unfet- tered imagination supply to an equally silent soul . We may be sure they were not idle thoughts to which those two gave voice in the flickering shadows of those early spring evenings , the rough winds of ...
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... gave him such poise and patience that the undis- cerning called him lazy , failing to measure him by his steady and continual achievements against nature , and by his big- souled determination neither to complain of circumstances nor to ...
... gave him such poise and patience that the undis- cerning called him lazy , failing to measure him by his steady and continual achievements against nature , and by his big- souled determination neither to complain of circumstances nor to ...
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... gave him such properties of body and mind and heart and soul that he could do the work he did ? What is poor or humble or degraded in the picture of those three wonderful human beings seated in that humble cabin before the flickering ...
... gave him such properties of body and mind and heart and soul that he could do the work he did ? What is poor or humble or degraded in the picture of those three wonderful human beings seated in that humble cabin before the flickering ...
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... gave him the almost superhuman strength and endur- ance of after years , especially those five years of almost con- tinuous soul agony of the White House , when sleep , for long periods of time was almost entirely abandoned , while with ...
... gave him the almost superhuman strength and endur- ance of after years , especially those five years of almost con- tinuous soul agony of the White House , when sleep , for long periods of time was almost entirely abandoned , while with ...
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Page 130 - Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak— compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design and concert of action among its chief...
Page 129 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 170 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 58 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 210 - Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
Page 67 - They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States. They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is their reason for entering...
Page 132 - How can he refuse that trade in that "property" shall be "perfectly free," unless he does it as a protection to the home production? And as the home producers will probably not ask the protection, he will be wholly without a ground of opposition. Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser to-day than he was yesterday — that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change of which...
Page 193 - If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion — by the mere incidents of the war. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it.
Page 133 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 195 - If there be in it any statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be any inferences •which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend whose heart I have always supposed to be right. As to the policy I