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And , by the way , I now discover that in order to give a full and intelligible account of the things I have done and suffered since I saw you , I shall necessarily have to relate some that happened before .
And , by the way , I now discover that in order to give a full and intelligible account of the things I have done and suffered since I saw you , I shall necessarily have to relate some that happened before .
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I finally was forced to give it up , at which I very unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance . I was mortified , it seemed to me , in a hundred different ways . My vanity was deeply wounded by the reflection that I ...
I finally was forced to give it up , at which I very unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance . I was mortified , it seemed to me , in a hundred different ways . My vanity was deeply wounded by the reflection that I ...
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... of all business and conversation of friends , which might divert your mind , give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death .
... of all business and conversation of friends , which might divert your mind , give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death .
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Shall he now be arrested in his desolating In that arrest all can give aid that will ; and who shall be excused that can and will not ? Far around as human breath has ever blown he keeps our fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our ...
Shall he now be arrested in his desolating In that arrest all can give aid that will ; and who shall be excused that can and will not ? Far around as human breath has ever blown he keeps our fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our ...
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I would give all I am worth , and go in debt , to be able to write so fine a piece as I think that is . Neither do I know who is the author . I met it in a straggling form in a newspaper last summer , and I remember to have seen 47 OF ...
I would give all I am worth , and go in debt , to be able to write so fine a piece as I think that is . Neither do I know who is the author . I met it in a straggling form in a newspaper last summer , and I remember to have seen 47 OF ...
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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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