Lincoln's Birthday: A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own WritingsRobert Haven Schauffler Dodd, Mead, 1909 - 386 pages |
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... coln's Birthday is now a legal holiday in Connecti- cut , Delaware , Illinois , Minnesota , New Jersey , New York , North Dakota , Pennsylvania , Washing- ton ( state ) and Wyoming , and is generally observed in the other Northern ...
... coln's Birthday is now a legal holiday in Connecti- cut , Delaware , Illinois , Minnesota , New Jersey , New York , North Dakota , Pennsylvania , Washing- ton ( state ) and Wyoming , and is generally observed in the other Northern ...
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... coln decidedly less . How great was his conse- quent loss ? I raise the question ; let others decide it . Having seen much of Henry Clay , I confidently assert that not one in ten of those who knew him late in life would have suspected ...
... coln decidedly less . How great was his conse- quent loss ? I raise the question ; let others decide it . Having seen much of Henry Clay , I confidently assert that not one in ten of those who knew him late in life would have suspected ...
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... coln's Stories . " Lincoln could not rest for an instant under the consciousness that he had , even unwittingly , de- frauded anybody . On one occasion , while clerk- ing in Offutt's store , at New Salem , Ill . , he sold a woman a ...
... coln's Stories . " Lincoln could not rest for an instant under the consciousness that he had , even unwittingly , de- frauded anybody . On one occasion , while clerk- ing in Offutt's store , at New Salem , Ill . , he sold a woman a ...
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... coln's Stories . " In his eagerness to acquire knowledge , young Lincoln had borrowed of Mr. Crawford , a neigh- boring farmer , a copy of Weems ' Life of Washing- ton the only one known to be in existence in that section of country ...
... coln's Stories . " In his eagerness to acquire knowledge , young Lincoln had borrowed of Mr. Crawford , a neigh- boring farmer , a copy of Weems ' Life of Washing- ton the only one known to be in existence in that section of country ...
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... coln ! " and plunged his really astonished candidate forward into a march . At the same instant , those in league with him also put hands to the shoulders before them , pushed , and took up the cheer , " Hurrah for Captain Abe Lincoln ...
... coln ! " and plunged his really astonished candidate forward into a march . At the same instant , those in league with him also put hands to the shoulders before them , pushed , and took up the cheer , " Hurrah for Captain Abe Lincoln ...
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