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... duties and destinies as leaders of the American people in their two great wars , one for national inde- ' pendence , the other for national unity . - - Washington was of a family renowned in English heraldry . Lincoln could trace an ...
... duties and destinies as leaders of the American people in their two great wars , one for national inde- ' pendence , the other for national unity . - - Washington was of a family renowned in English heraldry . Lincoln could trace an ...
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... duty . He will never perform it . Instead of going to her grave , he has gone to her ; and blissful beyond human computation must have been , ere this , the meeting of such a mother with such a son . Yet that humble grave should not be ...
... duty . He will never perform it . Instead of going to her grave , he has gone to her ; and blissful beyond human computation must have been , ere this , the meeting of such a mother with such a son . Yet that humble grave should not be ...
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... duty and destiny . " But it did cost much : not , it may be , of money , though more of that than a superficial observer might suppose ; but labor and influence and prayers , and the silent but powerful ministrations of Na- 26 CHAPTER ...
... duty and destiny . " But it did cost much : not , it may be , of money , though more of that than a superficial observer might suppose ; but labor and influence and prayers , and the silent but powerful ministrations of Na- 26 CHAPTER ...
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... duty , to emancipate the oppressed millions in our land , whose unrighteous bondage made our glorious banner too long a " flaunting lie , " and our " Independent days " ostentatious cheats . We have seen how his childhood and early ...
... duty , to emancipate the oppressed millions in our land , whose unrighteous bondage made our glorious banner too long a " flaunting lie , " and our " Independent days " ostentatious cheats . We have seen how his childhood and early ...
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... duty ; and that his courage and patriotism shrank from no dangers or hard- ships . " * Thus by personal participation in military duties the future Commander - in - Chief was preparing for his coming responsibilities ; and this ...
... duty ; and that his courage and patriotism shrank from no dangers or hard- ships . " * Thus by personal participation in military duties the future Commander - in - Chief was preparing for his coming responsibilities ; and this ...
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