Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1 |
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... thought was not serious enough , and the second was on the other extreme . I shall send this , turn out as it may . This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business , after all ; at least it is so to me . I am quite as ...
... thought was not serious enough , and the second was on the other extreme . I shall send this , turn out as it may . This thing of living in Springfield is rather a dull business , after all ; at least it is so to me . I am quite as ...
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... thoughts ( if you ever had any ) from me forever , and leave this letter unanswered , without calling forth one ... thought her intelligent and agree- able , and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her ...
... thoughts ( if you ever had any ) from me forever , and leave this letter unanswered , without calling forth one ... thought her intelligent and agree- able , and saw no good objection to plodding life through hand in hand with her ...
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... thought I , " I have said it , and , be the consequences what they may , it shall not be my fault if I fail to do it . " At once I de- termined to consider her my wife , and this done , all my powers of discovery were put to work in ...
... thought I , " I have said it , and , be the consequences what they may , it shall not be my fault if I fail to do it . " At once I de- termined to consider her my wife , and this done , all my powers of discovery were put to work in ...
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... thought I could in honor do ( which , by the way , had brought me round into the last fall ) , I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay , and so I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her ...
... thought I could in honor do ( which , by the way , had brought me round into the last fall ) , I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay , and so I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her ...
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... thought it was adverse to the interests of the poor settler , because speculators buy them up . He was opposed to a ... thought that if the State had all the lands , the policy of the legislature would be more liberal to all sections ...
... thought it was adverse to the interests of the poor settler , because speculators buy them up . He was opposed to a ... thought that if the State had all the lands , the policy of the legislature would be more liberal to all sections ...
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