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I am flat- tered with the personal regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come .
I am flat- tered with the personal regard you manifested for me ; but I do hope that , on more mature reflection , you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration , and therefore determine to let the worst come .
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I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions in ...
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... sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the blow , and overturn that fair fabric which for the last half century has been the fondest hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world .
... sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity , strike the blow , and overturn that fair fabric which for the last half century has been the fondest hope of the lovers of freedom throughout the world .
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We hope there is no sufficient reason , We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ...
We hope there is no sufficient reason , We hope all danger may be overcome ; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous . There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their ...
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In history , we hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known ...
In history , we hope , they will be read of , and recounted , so long as the Bible shall be read ; but even granting that they will , their influence cannot be what it heretofore has been . Even then they cannot be so universally known ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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