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As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide . 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 ...
As a nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide . 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 ...
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I am often thinking of what we said about your coming to live at Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satisfied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it ...
I am often thinking of what we said about your coming to live at Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satisfied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it ...
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“ Come from the four winds , o breath ! and breathe upon these slain that they may live . ” If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they alleviate , and the small amount they ...
“ Come from the four winds , o breath ! and breathe upon these slain that they may live . ” If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they alleviate , and the small amount they ...
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Happy day when — all appetites controlled , all poisons subdued , all matters subjected - mind , all conquering mind , shall live and move , the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail , fall of fury !
Happy day when — all appetites controlled , all poisons subdued , all matters subjected - mind , all conquering mind , shall live and move , the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail , fall of fury !
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If he saw any live , fighting Indians , it was more than I did ; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes , and although I never fainted from the loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry .
If he saw any live , fighting Indians , it was more than I did ; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes , and although I never fainted from the loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry .
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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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