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... interests . Whether elected or not , I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the ... interest on it . If alive on the first Monday in November , I shall vote for Hugh L. White for President . [ Letter ...
... interests . Whether elected or not , I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the ... interest on it . If alive on the first Monday in November , I shall vote for Hugh L. White for President . [ Letter ...
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... interest . I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts , real or supposed , you spoke ; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said . I ...
... interest . I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts , real or supposed , you spoke ; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said . I ...
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... interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade . And again , it is so common and so easy to ascribe motives to men of these classes other than those they profess to act upon . The preacher , it is said ...
... interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade . And again , it is so common and so easy to ascribe motives to men of these classes other than those they profess to act upon . The preacher , it is said ...
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... interest or burning appetite . When the dram - seller and drinker were incessantly told - not in accents of entreaty and persuasion , diffidently addressed by erring man to an erring brother , but in the thundering tones of anathema and ...
... interest or burning appetite . When the dram - seller and drinker were incessantly told - not in accents of entreaty and persuasion , diffidently addressed by erring man to an erring brother , but in the thundering tones of anathema and ...
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... to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests . Another error , as it seems to me , into 85 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw . Such is man , and so must he be understood by those who would lead him , even to his own best interests . Another error , as it seems to me , into 85 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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