Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...Advertising matter: pages 391-399. |
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... hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it ...
... hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come . I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part , however low it ...
Page 8
... hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
... hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
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... hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world . I know the American people are much attached to their government ; I know they would suffer much for its sake ; I know they would endure evils long and patiently before they would ...
... hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world . I know the American people are much attached to their government ; I know they would suffer much for its sake ; I know they would endure evils long and patiently before they would ...
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... hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ten ...
... hope there is no sufficient reason . We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ten ...
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... hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly ...
... hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known nor so vividly ...
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