Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... facts as my inquiries invited or suggested ; introduced me to friends with whom he had been on intimate terms for more than twenty years ; and put me in the way of exploring newspaper files and legislative journals in the Illinois State ...
... facts as my inquiries invited or suggested ; introduced me to friends with whom he had been on intimate terms for more than twenty years ; and put me in the way of exploring newspaper files and legislative journals in the Illinois State ...
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... fact on which weighty events were to depend . a For a year or two the wedded pair lived in Elizabeth- town , where their first child , Sarah , was born , in 1807 . The carpentry which detained them here being finished , the next year ...
... fact on which weighty events were to depend . a For a year or two the wedded pair lived in Elizabeth- town , where their first child , Sarah , was born , in 1807 . The carpentry which detained them here being finished , the next year ...
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... fact ( or in igno- rance of it ) a Boston biographer has scornfully affirmed that " whatever poetic fitness there might be in such a motive , the suggestion is entirely gratuitous and with- out the slightest foundation . " One of the ...
... fact ( or in igno- rance of it ) a Boston biographer has scornfully affirmed that " whatever poetic fitness there might be in such a motive , the suggestion is entirely gratuitous and with- out the slightest foundation . " One of the ...
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... fact the once familiar lines of an older date , beginning : " Time , what an empty vapor ' tis ; And days , how swift they are ; Swift as an Indian arrow flies , Or like a shooting star . " 66 Mr. Herndon says positively that certain ...
... fact the once familiar lines of an older date , beginning : " Time , what an empty vapor ' tis ; And days , how swift they are ; Swift as an Indian arrow flies , Or like a shooting star . " 66 Mr. Herndon says positively that certain ...
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... fact , even the author's claim ( on his title page ) to have been " formerly rector of Mt. Vernon " being disputed by Bishop Meade . Imaginary conversations abound in its pages ; unheroic realities are freely embel- lished , if not ...
... fact , even the author's claim ( on his title page ) to have been " formerly rector of Mt. Vernon " being disputed by Bishop Meade . Imaginary conversations abound in its pages ; unheroic realities are freely embel- lished , if not ...
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