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... thing , at least , showed himself more wisely provident than the majority of his neighbors . He de- termined , at any possible sacrifice , to give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln ...
... thing , at least , showed himself more wisely provident than the majority of his neighbors . He de- termined , at any possible sacrifice , to give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln ...
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... thing , " continued he , " but it was a most important incident in my life . I could scarcely believe that I , a poor boy , had earned a dollar in less than a day . The world seemed wider and fairer before me . I was a more hopeful and ...
... thing , " continued he , " but it was a most important incident in my life . I could scarcely believe that I , a poor boy , had earned a dollar in less than a day . The world seemed wider and fairer before me . I was a more hopeful and ...
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... thing of art . And this was the secret of all his subsequent intel- lectual successes . He succeeded because he had himself and all his resources completely in hand ; for he was not , and never became an educated man , in the common ...
... thing of art . And this was the secret of all his subsequent intel- lectual successes . He succeeded because he had himself and all his resources completely in hand ; for he was not , and never became an educated man , in the common ...
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... thing of an improvement upon former days . A gentleman now living in Chicago , then a resident of Coles County , * met him at that time , or very soon afterwards , and says that he was dressed in plain mixed jeans , his coat being of ...
... thing of an improvement upon former days . A gentleman now living in Chicago , then a resident of Coles County , * met him at that time , or very soon afterwards , and says that he was dressed in plain mixed jeans , his coat being of ...
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... things could have touched him but little when placed by the side of a few cabin homes , presided over by noble women who , with womanly instinct , had detected the manliness of his nature , and had given him a home " for his company ...
... things could have touched him but little when placed by the side of a few cabin homes , presided over by noble women who , with womanly instinct , had detected the manliness of his nature , and had given him a home " for his company ...
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Page 161 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 400 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 105 - House dissenting), had declared that "by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 162 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 151 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 503 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 211 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon...
Page 210 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President. In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ? That Is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer...
Page 161 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in...
Page 299 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.