A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 119
... fact that , in the workaday task of help- ing his clients out of their difficulties , Lincoln , by resorting to this ... fact that he realized that the machinery of the law is by no means infallible . Commenting on Lincoln's account of ...
... fact that , in the workaday task of help- ing his clients out of their difficulties , Lincoln , by resorting to this ... fact that he realized that the machinery of the law is by no means infallible . Commenting on Lincoln's account of ...
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... fact , but controverts everything that is known of him . It is part of the understanding of Lincoln the lawyer to realize that , for all his strange and unaccountable ways , and despite the contrarieties of his nature , he was a man of ...
... fact , but controverts everything that is known of him . It is part of the understanding of Lincoln the lawyer to realize that , for all his strange and unaccountable ways , and despite the contrarieties of his nature , he was a man of ...
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... facts favorable to his side of the case . The fact that General Matson had at such a time when he placed a slave on his Illinois farm , publicly declared that he was not placed there for permanent settlement , and that no counter ...
... facts favorable to his side of the case . The fact that General Matson had at such a time when he placed a slave on his Illinois farm , publicly declared that he was not placed there for permanent settlement , and that no counter ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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