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Lincoln never gave up this habit of reading out loud as he wrote , and as William E. Barton observed , " His verbal precision came in part from his weighing the word , both the sense and the sound , as he wrote it .
Lincoln never gave up this habit of reading out loud as he wrote , and as William E. Barton observed , " His verbal precision came in part from his weighing the word , both the sense and the sound , as he wrote it .
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I am little inclined to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it , " wrote Lincoln . It is be- cause of this determination that we find so much mean- ingful counsel compressed into every sentence he uttered or wrote .
I am little inclined to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it , " wrote Lincoln . It is be- cause of this determination that we find so much mean- ingful counsel compressed into every sentence he uttered or wrote .
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The Letter Lincoln Wrote But Did Not Send MOST military authorities agreed that had General Meade pursued his advantage after his victory at Gettysburg , the war might have been ended then and there . Overcome with grief , Lincoln wrote ...
The Letter Lincoln Wrote But Did Not Send MOST military authorities agreed that had General Meade pursued his advantage after his victory at Gettysburg , the war might have been ended then and there . Overcome with grief , Lincoln wrote ...
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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