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... divulge them . has needed favors more than I , and , generally , few have been less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public , and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it .
... divulge them . has needed favors more than I , and , generally , few have been less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public , and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it .
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By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
By such things the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friendship effectual .
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... and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her .
... and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her .
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Seriously , this proposition of Mr. Lamborn is nothing more or less than a request that his party may be tried by their professions instead of their practices . Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more ...
Seriously , this proposition of Mr. Lamborn is nothing more or less than a request that his party may be tried by their professions instead of their practices . Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more ...
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The particular causes , to a greater or less extent perhaps , do apply in all cases ; but the general one , -nervous debility , which is the key and conductor of all the particular ones , and without which they would be utterly harmless ...
The particular causes , to a greater or less extent perhaps , do apply in all cases ; but the general one , -nervous debility , which is the key and conductor of all the particular ones , and without which they would be utterly harmless ...
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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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