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In any case that may arise , as , for instance , the promulgation of abolitionism , one of two positions is necessarily true — that is , the thing is right within itself , and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good ...
In any case that may arise , as , for instance , the promulgation of abolitionism , one of two positions is necessarily true — that is , the thing is right within itself , and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good ...
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Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but the unwarrantable length to which I have already extended these remarks forbids me now attempting ...
Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but the unwarrantable length to which I have already extended these remarks forbids me now attempting ...
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و Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reformers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of ...
و Another error , as it seems to me , into which the old reformers fell , was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of ...
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Let me ask the man who could maintain this position most stiffly , what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sunday and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head ? Not a trifle , I'll venture .
Let me ask the man who could maintain this position most stiffly , what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sunday and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head ? Not a trifle , I'll venture .
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Position : A plank ten feet long , and from nine to twelve inches broad , to be firmly fixed on edge , on the ground , as the line between us , which her is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life .
Position : A plank ten feet long , and from nine to twelve inches broad , to be firmly fixed on edge , on the ground , as the line between us , which her is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life .
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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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