Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Volume 1Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 570 pages |
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... peace as was that which filled the humble habitation of his early days . Between his devoted parents there was an affinity of spirit and a constancy of love and tenderness which in spite of seeming inhospitable con- ditions kept the ...
... peace as was that which filled the humble habitation of his early days . Between his devoted parents there was an affinity of spirit and a constancy of love and tenderness which in spite of seeming inhospitable con- ditions kept the ...
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... peace , on that glad day he disclosed to her , as he did to no one else , his fond hopes and purposes for the years that should follow the close of his Presidential term . And the tragedy which a few hours later snatched him from her ...
... peace , on that glad day he disclosed to her , as he did to no one else , his fond hopes and purposes for the years that should follow the close of his Presidential term . And the tragedy which a few hours later snatched him from her ...
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... peaceful in its infinite repose that the famous sculptor , Augustus Saint - Gaudens , insisted , when he first saw it , that it was a death mask . The lines are set , as if the living face , like the copy , had been in bronze ; the nose ...
... peaceful in its infinite repose that the famous sculptor , Augustus Saint - Gaudens , insisted , when he first saw it , that it was a death mask . The lines are set , as if the living face , like the copy , had been in bronze ; the nose ...
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... peace is not the dreadful peace of death ; it is the peace that passeth understanding . " 4 Lincoln's native tendency to melancholy and his terrible experiences of anxiety and sorrow wrote their records very legibly upon his strong ...
... peace is not the dreadful peace of death ; it is the peace that passeth understanding . " 4 Lincoln's native tendency to melancholy and his terrible experiences of anxiety and sorrow wrote their records very legibly upon his strong ...
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... Peace , he said : " I know Jaquess well . He is remarkably level - headed . I never knew a man more so . " He " is cool , deliberate , God - fearing , of exceptional sagacity and worldly wisdom . " General W. S. Rosecrans , who at the ...
... Peace , he said : " I know Jaquess well . He is remarkably level - headed . I never knew a man more so . " He " is cool , deliberate , God - fearing , of exceptional sagacity and worldly wisdom . " General W. S. Rosecrans , who at the ...
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