Men of Out TimesHartford publishing Company, 1868 - 575 pages |
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... gave him his success in life was his self - training in the ability to understand and to state facts and principles about men and things . In 1836 our backwoodsman , flat - boat hand , captain , surveyor , obtained a license to practice ...
... gave him his success in life was his self - training in the ability to understand and to state facts and principles about men and things . In 1836 our backwoodsman , flat - boat hand , captain , surveyor , obtained a license to practice ...
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... gave him the papers in the case for examination , together with a retainer in the shape of a check for two hun- dred dollars . Next day she came to see what her prospects were , when Mr. Lincoln told her that he had examined the ...
... gave him the papers in the case for examination , together with a retainer in the shape of a check for two hun- dred dollars . Next day she came to see what her prospects were , when Mr. Lincoln told her that he had examined the ...
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... gave him an assured and high position in his party . The work done was usually of a local character , of course , its most important departments being that of the improvement of internal communi- cation by railroad and canal , and that ...
... gave him an assured and high position in his party . The work done was usually of a local character , of course , its most important departments being that of the improvement of internal communi- cation by railroad and canal , and that ...
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... . Douglas in accepting adroitly contrived to name terms that gave him the opening and the closing turns , not only of the whole series , but of four out of seven of the meetings . In the June and July preceding , Mr. Lincoln made.
... . Douglas in accepting adroitly contrived to name terms that gave him the opening and the closing turns , not only of the whole series , but of four out of seven of the meetings . In the June and July preceding , Mr. Lincoln made.
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... gave up their plan . His anger sometimes - though very seldom- flamed up at ill usage of himself ; but never so hotly as at ill usage to others . When a poor negro citizen of Illinois was imprisoned at New Orleans , simply for being a ...
... gave up their plan . His anger sometimes - though very seldom- flamed up at ill usage of himself ; but never so hotly as at ill usage to others . When a poor negro citizen of Illinois was imprisoned at New Orleans , simply for being a ...
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Page 40 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 80 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 329 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 68 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 68 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government...
Page 67 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 41 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
Page 66 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Page 40 - 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 107 - You lay a wreath on murdered LINCOLN'S bier; You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please; You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain: Reckless, so it could point its paragraph,...