Abraham LincolnChautauqua Press, 1899 - 189 pages |
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... struggle began again . He " set up in store business " with a dissolute partner , who drank whiskey while Lincoln was reading books . The result was a disastrous failure and a load of debt . upon he became a deputy surveyor , and was ...
... struggle began again . He " set up in store business " with a dissolute partner , who drank whiskey while Lincoln was reading books . The result was a disastrous failure and a load of debt . upon he became a deputy surveyor , and was ...
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... struggles , which accompanied him through all the vicissitudes of his life from the modest home in Springfield to the White House at Washington , adding untold private heartburnings to his public cares , and sometimes precipitating upon ...
... struggles , which accompanied him through all the vicissitudes of his life from the modest home in Springfield to the White House at Washington , adding untold private heartburnings to his public cares , and sometimes precipitating upon ...
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... struggle . This , however , was not owing to his virtues and abili- ties alone . Indeed , the slavery question stirred his soul in its profoundest depths ; it was , as one of his intimate friends said , " the only one on which he would ...
... struggle . This , however , was not owing to his virtues and abili- ties alone . Indeed , the slavery question stirred his soul in its profoundest depths ; it was , as one of his intimate friends said , " the only one on which he would ...
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... struggle about the principles involved in the Kansas- Nebraska bill , or , in a broader sense , the struggle be- tween freedom and slavery , assumed in Illinois the outward form of a personal contest between Lincoln and Douglas ; and as ...
... struggle about the principles involved in the Kansas- Nebraska bill , or , in a broader sense , the struggle be- tween freedom and slavery , assumed in Illinois the outward form of a personal contest between Lincoln and Douglas ; and as ...
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... struggling in a swamp . Indeed , appeals to his com- passion were so irresistible to him , and he felt it so difficult to refuse anything when his refusal could give pain , that he himself sometimes spoke of his inability to say " no ...
... struggling in a swamp . Indeed , appeals to his com- passion were so irresistible to him , and he felt it so difficult to refuse anything when his refusal could give pain , that he himself sometimes spoke of his inability to say " no ...
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