Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsA.L. Burt Company, 1906 - 417 pages |
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Page viii
... Friends , " he said to them , " one who has never been placed in a like position can little understand my feelings at this hour , nor the oppressive sadness I feel at this parting . I go to assume a task more difficult than that which ...
... Friends , " he said to them , " one who has never been placed in a like position can little understand my feelings at this hour , nor the oppressive sadness I feel at this parting . I go to assume a task more difficult than that which ...
Page xvii
... 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 battle - field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone ...
... 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 battle - field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone ...
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... friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual . At such a time , and under such circumstances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , SPEECHES OF ...
... friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual . At such a time , and under such circumstances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , SPEECHES OF ...
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... friends will not allow it to be so . Besides the continual effort of the President to argue every silent vote given for supplies into an indorse- ment of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly candid paragraph ...
... friends will not allow it to be so . Besides the continual effort of the President to argue every silent vote given for supplies into an indorse- ment of the justice and wisdom of his conduct ; besides that singularly candid paragraph ...
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... constantly been the most loved and most implicitly followed by friends , and the most dreaded by opponents , of all living Ameri- can politicians . In all the great questions which have 26 SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... constantly been the most loved and most implicitly followed by friends , and the most dreaded by opponents , of all living Ameri- can politicians . In all the great questions which have 26 SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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