Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... weeks before his decease . Of the orig- inal painting , President Lincoln said : " I feel that there is more of me in this portrait than in any representation which has ever been made . " Chief Justice Chase wrote ( in 1866 ) : " The ...
... weeks before his decease . Of the orig- inal painting , President Lincoln said : " I feel that there is more of me in this portrait than in any representation which has ever been made . " Chief Justice Chase wrote ( in 1866 ) : " The ...
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... weeks later the Terri- tory , with but sixty - five thousand inhabitants , mostly on the southern border , became a State . The quarter section already selected was sixteen miles from the nearest landing on the Ohio , and on this ...
... weeks later the Terri- tory , with but sixty - five thousand inhabitants , mostly on the southern border , became a State . The quarter section already selected was sixteen miles from the nearest landing on the Ohio , and on this ...
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... weeks ' study of Flint and Gibson he became a competent surveyor , and for the next two or three years found a good business in settling boundaries , laying out roads and making village plats . In the meantime he was preparing for admis ...
... weeks ' study of Flint and Gibson he became a competent surveyor , and for the next two or three years found a good business in settling boundaries , laying out roads and making village plats . In the meantime he was preparing for admis ...
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... weeks each year in making the rounds of the dozen other coun- ties of the Eighth District , judges and lawyers travel- ing mainly by private conveyance . Roads were bad and tavern accommodations simple . The court - houses were neither ...
... weeks each year in making the rounds of the dozen other coun- ties of the Eighth District , judges and lawyers travel- ing mainly by private conveyance . Roads were bad and tavern accommodations simple . The court - houses were neither ...
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... week ? All that is said of the matter in his intimate correspondence with Mr. Speed reveals little more than that both these bachelors like so many others ( Thomas Carlyle , for one ) had a morbid dread or misgiving on coming directly ...
... week ? All that is said of the matter in his intimate correspondence with Mr. Speed reveals little more than that both these bachelors like so many others ( Thomas Carlyle , for one ) had a morbid dread or misgiving on coming directly ...
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