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At such a time , and under such circumstances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the blow , and overturn that fair fabric which for the last half century has been the fondest ...
At such a time , and under such circumstances , men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the blow , and overturn that fair fabric which for the last half century has been the fondest ...
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[ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
[ Letter to Miss Mary Owens , Springfield , Illinois , 7 May 1837. ] Friend Mary : I have commenced two letters to send you before this , both of which displeased me before I got half done , and so I tore them up .
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I knew she was called an " old maid , " and I felt no doubt of the truth of at least half of the appellation , but now , when I beheld her , I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and this , not from withered features ...
I knew she was called an " old maid , " and I felt no doubt of the truth of at least half of the appellation , but now , when I beheld her , I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother ; and this , not from withered features ...
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Young childhood grown , strong manhood gray , And half of all are dead . I hear the loved survivors tell How nought from death could save , Till every sound appears a knell , And every spot a grave . I range the fields with pensive ...
Young childhood grown , strong manhood gray , And half of all are dead . I hear the loved survivors tell How nought from death could save , Till every sound appears a knell , And every spot a grave . I range the fields with pensive ...
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How like the half - insane mumbling of a fever dream is the whole war part of his late message ! At one time telling us that Mexico has nothing whatever that we can get but territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by ...
How like the half - insane mumbling of a fever dream is the whole war part of his late message ! At one time telling us that Mexico has nothing whatever that we can get but territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by ...
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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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