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... side ; giving attention to cotemporaneous history no further than it has seemed necessary to reveal his connection with public events ; and re - producing his letters , speeches and state - papers to no greater extent than they were ...
... side ; giving attention to cotemporaneous history no further than it has seemed necessary to reveal his connection with public events ; and re - producing his letters , speeches and state - papers to no greater extent than they were ...
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... side of the negro , and degradation in his pres- ence and companionship . Mr. Lincoln himself never attributed his father's desire to remove from Kentucky to his dislike of slavery , as a principal motive . Kentucky , more than most of ...
... side of the negro , and degradation in his pres- ence and companionship . Mr. Lincoln himself never attributed his father's desire to remove from Kentucky to his dislike of slavery , as a principal motive . Kentucky , more than most of ...
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... side of the bedstead were formed by an angle of the cabin itself . The bed - post standing out into the room was a ... sides of the cabin and the two rails embracing a quadrilateral space of the required dimensions . This was bridged by ...
... side of the bedstead were formed by an angle of the cabin itself . The bed - post standing out into the room was a ... sides of the cabin and the two rails embracing a quadrilateral space of the required dimensions . This was bridged by ...
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... sides of the water - courses , and in the edges of the timber , were almost illimitable farms that called for nothing but the plough and hoe to make them immediately productive . Dennis Hanks , a relative of the first Mrs. Lincoln , was ...
... sides of the water - courses , and in the edges of the timber , were almost illimitable farms that called for nothing but the plough and hoe to make them immediately productive . Dennis Hanks , a relative of the first Mrs. Lincoln , was ...
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... side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie , about ten miles westerly of Decatur . Here , Abraham assisted his father in building a log cabin , and in getting the family into a condition for comfortable ...
... side of the Sangamon River , at the junction of the timber land and prairie , about ten miles westerly of Decatur . Here , Abraham assisted his father in building a log cabin , and in getting the family into a condition for comfortable ...
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