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... idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death . The third is the rapid and near approach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feel- ings concentrate . If from all these causes you shall escape and go through ...
... idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death . The third is the rapid and near approach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feel- ings concentrate . If from all these causes you shall escape and go through ...
Page 42
... idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have contributed to make so . That still kills my soul . I cannot but reproach myself for even wish- ing to be happy while she is otherwise . She accompanied a large party on the railroad cars ...
... idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have contributed to make so . That still kills my soul . I cannot but reproach myself for even wish- ing to be happy while she is otherwise . She accompanied a large party on the railroad cars ...
Page 64
... idea is he broke it in despera- tion ; I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries , I guess I sur- passed him in charges upon the wild onions . If he saw any live , fighting Indians ...
... idea is he broke it in despera- tion ; I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries , I guess I sur- passed him in charges upon the wild onions . If he saw any live , fighting Indians ...
Page 94
... idea " in our political public opinion at the be- ginning was , and until recently has continued to be , " the ... idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
... idea " in our political public opinion at the be- ginning was , and until recently has continued to be , " the ... idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a ...
Page 95
... idea is completely inaugurated ; and so indeed it is , so far as the mere fact of a presidential election can in- augurate it . To us it is left to know that the majority of the people have not yet declared for it , and to hope that ...
... idea is completely inaugurated ; and so indeed it is , so far as the mere fact of a presidential election can in- augurate it . To us it is left to know that the majority of the people have not yet declared for it , and to hope that ...
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