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... natural representative of na- tional independence . He might also have represented national unity , had this principle been challenged to bloody battle during his life ; for nothing was nearer his heart than the consolidation of our ...
... natural representative of na- tional independence . He might also have represented national unity , had this principle been challenged to bloody battle during his life ; for nothing was nearer his heart than the consolidation of our ...
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... nature , with trees , with the fruitful corn , and with the stars . While yet a child , his father had borne him away from a soil wasted by slavery ; and he was now the citizen of a free State , where free labor had been placed under ...
... nature , with trees , with the fruitful corn , and with the stars . While yet a child , his father had borne him away from a soil wasted by slavery ; and he was now the citizen of a free State , where free labor had been placed under ...
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... Nature's God with his angelic messengers , who are declared to be " ministering spirits , sent forth to min- ister for them who shall be heirs of salvation . " Abraham Lincoln was not a man of science , or a literary man , as men often ...
... Nature's God with his angelic messengers , who are declared to be " ministering spirits , sent forth to min- ister for them who shall be heirs of salvation . " Abraham Lincoln was not a man of science , or a literary man , as men often ...
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... Nature whose origin and in- fluence we cannot fully explain , while yet we are com- pelled to acknowledge their existence ; so , though we may not comprehend how prayer accomplishes its di- vinely appointed ends , yet it is none the ...
... Nature whose origin and in- fluence we cannot fully explain , while yet we are com- pelled to acknowledge their existence ; so , though we may not comprehend how prayer accomplishes its di- vinely appointed ends , yet it is none the ...
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... Nature with her myriad forms of beauty , and from God and the angels ? The receptive mind , consciously or unconsciously ( and more often the latter ) , is powerfully impressed with the wonders of the out- ward world ; and Abraham ...
... Nature with her myriad forms of beauty , and from God and the angels ? The receptive mind , consciously or unconsciously ( and more often the latter ) , is powerfully impressed with the wonders of the out- ward world ; and Abraham ...
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