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It seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest - hearted creatures very much ... At the hazard of wearing this point threadbare , I will relate an anecdote which seems too strikingly in point to be ...
It seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest - hearted creatures very much ... At the hazard of wearing this point threadbare , I will relate an anecdote which seems too strikingly in point to be ...
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... of champions that our late success is greatly , perhaps chiefly , owing . But , had the old - school champions themselves been of the most wise selecting , was their system of tactics the most judicious ? It seems to me it was not .
... of champions that our late success is greatly , perhaps chiefly , owing . But , had the old - school champions themselves been of the most wise selecting , was their system of tactics the most judicious ? It seems to me it was not .
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... to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests , و Another error , as it seems to me ,. men . 35 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests , و Another error , as it seems to me ,. men . 35 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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و Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reformers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of ...
و Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reformers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of ...
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There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - blooded to fall into this vice — the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can call ...
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm - blooded to fall into this vice — the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity . What one of us but can call ...
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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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