The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln |
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... understand this man as a person and as a force in history . No amount of reading biographical accounts of him will give the whole picture ; no study of history or contemporary records will give as complete an understand ing of his ...
... understand this man as a person and as a force in history . No amount of reading biographical accounts of him will give the whole picture ; no study of history or contemporary records will give as complete an understand ing of his ...
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... understand it . " Let us have faith that right makes might , and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it ” - strange words for a man whose whole policy hitherto had been that of " groping for some middle ...
... understand it . " Let us have faith that right makes might , and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it ” - strange words for a man whose whole policy hitherto had been that of " groping for some middle ...
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... understand that this is an imputation upon my veracity and my candor . . . . Judge Douglas may not un- derstand that he implicated my truthfulness and my honor when he said I was doing one thing and pretending another ; and I ...
... understand that this is an imputation upon my veracity and my candor . . . . Judge Douglas may not un- derstand that he implicated my truthfulness and my honor when he said I was doing one thing and pretending another ; and I ...
Contents
Reply to a Committee of Religious Denominations Asking | 145 |
Chronology | 193 |
Address to the People of Sangamon County Illinois March | 221 |
Copyright | |
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