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... speak , much to the disgust of their employer . He would select a subject , sometimes a text from the Bible , and embellish his harangue with stories and jokes , which , with the contortions of his awkward fig- ure , would keep his ...
... speak , much to the disgust of their employer . He would select a subject , sometimes a text from the Bible , and embellish his harangue with stories and jokes , which , with the contortions of his awkward fig- ure , would keep his ...
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... speaking of her stepson she once said : “ Abe never gave me a cross word or look , and never refused , in fact or appearance , to do all I requested of him . " A new era was inaugurated in the cheerless cabin by her arrival . Floors ...
... speaking of her stepson she once said : “ Abe never gave me a cross word or look , and never refused , in fact or appearance , to do all I requested of him . " A new era was inaugurated in the cheerless cabin by her arrival . Floors ...
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... speak . His speeches were simple and crude , but contained many sharp points , and were illustrated with numerous stories which kept his audience in roars of laughter . Oftentimes his father was com- pelled to interrupt the incipient ...
... speak . His speeches were simple and crude , but contained many sharp points , and were illustrated with numerous stories which kept his audience in roars of laughter . Oftentimes his father was com- pelled to interrupt the incipient ...
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... speaking in which he made use of a rude and fervid eloquence which seldom failed to carry the audience along in sympathy with him . In those days , when men would go thirty or forty miles to hear a lawyer's speech in court or a ...
... speaking in which he made use of a rude and fervid eloquence which seldom failed to carry the audience along in sympathy with him . In those days , when men would go thirty or forty miles to hear a lawyer's speech in court or a ...
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... his book as to be lost to all around . He once heard some one speak of the science of grammar , and immediately determined to penetrate its mysteries . After diligent inquiries he found and borrowed ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 43.
... his book as to be lost to all around . He once heard some one speak of the science of grammar , and immediately determined to penetrate its mysteries . After diligent inquiries he found and borrowed ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 43.
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Page 192 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 308 - Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 308 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 179 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 309 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 309 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom...
Page 195 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend " it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 259 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Page 241 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 230 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.