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Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe , Asia , and Africa combined , with all the treasure of the earth ( our own excepted ) in their military chest ...
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never ! All the armies of Europe , Asia , and Africa combined , with all the treasure of the earth ( our own excepted ) in their military chest ...
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Is it unreasonable , then , to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such an one does , it will ...
Is it unreasonable , then , to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius , coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch , will at some time spring up among us ? And when such an one does , it will ...
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If , on the contrary , you shall , as I expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned ...
If , on the contrary , you shall , as I expect you will at some time , be agonized and distressed , let me , who have some reason to speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned ...
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To have expected them to do otherwise than they did - to have expected them not to meet denunciation with denunciation , crimination with crimination , and anathema with anathema — was to expect a reversal of human nature , which is ...
To have expected them to do otherwise than they did - to have expected them not to meet denunciation with denunciation , crimination with crimination , and anathema with anathema — was to expect a reversal of human nature , which is ...
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What an ignorance of human nature does it exhibit , to ask or expect a whole community to rise up and labor for the temporal happiness of others , after themselves shall be consigned to the dust , a majority of which community take no ...
What an ignorance of human nature does it exhibit , to ask or expect a whole community to rise up and labor for the temporal happiness of others , after themselves shall be consigned to the dust , a majority of which community take no ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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