Words of Lincoln: Including Several Hundred Opinions of His Life and Character by Eminent Persons of this and Other Lands |
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... responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me . I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility . I cannot but know , what you all know , that without a name - perhaps without ...
... responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me . I am deeply sensible of that weighty responsibility . I cannot but know , what you all know , that without a name - perhaps without ...
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... responsibility resting upon me , We feel how grandly secure we were while the star , now hidden in higher splendors , held up with its unfailing influences the very struc- ture and frame of the government . - R . S. Storrs . us . 1862 ...
... responsibility resting upon me , We feel how grandly secure we were while the star , now hidden in higher splendors , held up with its unfailing influences the very struc- ture and frame of the government . - R . S. Storrs . us . 1862 ...
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... responsibility under which man had stood in modern times — responsibility which had furrowed brow and cheek with ceaseless cares and great anxieties - and he was barely permitted to taste the rewards of a faithful stewardship ...
... responsibility under which man had stood in modern times — responsibility which had furrowed brow and cheek with ceaseless cares and great anxieties - and he was barely permitted to taste the rewards of a faithful stewardship ...
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CHAIR IN WHICH THE PRESIDENT WAS SHOT | 51 |
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LINCOLN MONUMENT SPRINGFIELD ILL | 181 |
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