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Page 21
I , of course , accepted the proposal , for you know I could not have done otherwise had I really been averse to it ; but privately , between you and me , I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project .
I , of course , accepted the proposal , for you know I could not have done otherwise had I really been averse to it ; but privately , between you and me , I was most confoundedly well pleased with the project .
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... on the waves of hell , the imps of that evil spirit , and fiendishly taunting all those who dare resist its destroying course with the hopelessness of their effort ; and , knowing this , I cannot deny that all may be swept away .
... on the waves of hell , the imps of that evil spirit , and fiendishly taunting all those who dare resist its destroying course with the hopelessness of their effort ; and , knowing this , I cannot deny that all may be swept away .
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For the man suddenly or in any other way to break off from the use of drams , who has indulged in them for a long course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten- or a hundred - fold stronger , and more craving than any ...
For the man suddenly or in any other way to break off from the use of drams , who has indulged in them for a long course of years , and until his appetite for them has grown ten- or a hundred - fold stronger , and more craving than any ...
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With all these things , Baker , of course , had nothing to do . Nor do I complain of them . As to his own church going for him , I think that was right enough , and as to the influences I have spoken of in the other , though they were ...
With all these things , Baker , of course , had nothing to do . Nor do I complain of them . As to his own church going for him , I think that was right enough , and as to the influences I have spoken of in the other , though they were ...
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Of course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I was young once , and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back . I hardly know what to say . The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can , never ...
Of course I cannot demonstrate what I say ; but I was young once , and I am sure I was never ungenerously thrust back . I hardly know what to say . The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can , never ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln American Civil War, letters and diaries Half-title: The unit books, no. 2 Issue 2 of The Unit books |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Mary Maclean |
| Publisher | Unit Book Publishing Company, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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