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THE TABLE TALK

OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

edited
by

William O. Stoddard

New York
F.A. Stokes

1894

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OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

EDITED BY

WILLIAM O. STODDARD,

One of his Private Secretaries 1861-4.

THE history of the world presents

us with innumerable instances of men, holding positions of power over current affairs, whose verbal or written utterances were among the apparent forces of the time to which they belonged. With the passing away of the circumstances, the peculiar features of their field of action, a winnowing process becomes at once observable, and much which was at first deemed worthy of preservation is seen to have lost its importance; it has no

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