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... written by different pens , and of varying size , style , and merit . But the field is open to all ; and no one has a right to monopolize it , and thus prohibit others from labor in the same direction . Every new book finds new readers ...
... written by different pens , and of varying size , style , and merit . But the field is open to all ; and no one has a right to monopolize it , and thus prohibit others from labor in the same direction . Every new book finds new readers ...
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... writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he kept stored in his heart ...
... writing letters for his neighbors . - President Lincoln never forgot his mother . It was very long before the loneliness and desolation of that sad bereavement passed away . Her lessons of divinest wisdom he kept stored in his heart ...
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... writing . His appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was ...
... writing . His appearance was in keeping with his humble home . He was arrayed in buckskin clothes , with a raccoon - skin cap , and carried an old arithmetic , which had been in- dustriously sought for his benefit . " His progress was ...
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... opportunities for extensive reading . He is said to have written out a synopsis of every book he read , and thus to have fixed the contents in his memory . F About this time , John Calhoun , afterwards President of 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... opportunities for extensive reading . He is said to have written out a synopsis of every book he read , and thus to have fixed the contents in his memory . F About this time , John Calhoun , afterwards President of 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... written on every feature , and accompanied by his half - hoping , half - despairing mother , whose only hope was in a mother's belief of her son's innocence , in the justice of the God she wor shipped , and in the noble counsel , who ...
... written on every feature , and accompanied by his half - hoping , half - despairing mother , whose only hope was in a mother's belief of her son's innocence , in the justice of the God she wor shipped , and in the noble counsel , who ...
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