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... hope to be more than tributaries to that better and completer biography which the next , or some succeeding generation , will be sure to produce and possess . I have no opportunity , except that which this page affords me , to ...
... hope to be more than tributaries to that better and completer biography which the next , or some succeeding generation , will be sure to produce and possess . I have no opportunity , except that which this page affords me , to ...
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... hope to be , I owe to my angel mother - blessings on her memory ! " eyes : Here was the home and here were its occupants , all hum- ble , all miserably poor ; yet it was a home of love and of virtue . Both father and mother were ...
... hope to be , I owe to my angel mother - blessings on her memory ! " eyes : Here was the home and here were its occupants , all hum- ble , all miserably poor ; yet it was a home of love and of virtue . Both father and mother were ...
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... hope to long be remembered by her ; and still I am sure I shall not forget her soon . Try if you can- not remind her of that debt she owes me , and be sure you do not interfere to prevent her paying it . " I regret to learn that you ...
... hope to long be remembered by her ; and still I am sure I shall not forget her soon . Try if you can- not remind her of that debt she owes me , and be sure you do not interfere to prevent her paying it . " I regret to learn that you ...
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... hope and believe , is to liberate the world .. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize , and make their ...
... hope and believe , is to liberate the world .. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it . Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize , and make their ...
Page 113
... hope to win the power they coveted . The majority would doubtless have pre- ferred Mr. Clay , but Mr. Clay had been their candidate , and had been beaten . Mr. Lincoln would have been glad to sup- port Mr. Clay , it is not doubted , but ...
... hope to win the power they coveted . The majority would doubtless have pre- ferred Mr. Clay , but Mr. Clay had been their candidate , and had been beaten . Mr. Lincoln would have been glad to sup- port Mr. Clay , it is not doubted , but ...
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