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... live through all time , or die by suicide . I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to ...
... live through all time , or die by suicide . I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country - the growing disposition to ...
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... live at Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satis- fied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it . You would have to be poor , without the means of ...
... live at Springfield . I am afraid you would not be satis- fied . There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here , which it would be your doom to see without sharing it . You would have to be poor , without the means of ...
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... live . " If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they alleviate , and the small amount they inflict , then indeed will this be the grand- est the world shall ever have seen . Of our ...
... live . " If the relative grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the great amount of human misery they alleviate , and the small amount they inflict , then indeed will this be the grand- est the world shall ever have seen . Of our ...
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... live and move , the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail , fall of fury ! Reign of reason , all hail ! And when the victory shall be complete , -when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth , how proud ...
... live and move , the monarch of the world . Glorious consummation ! Hail , fall of fury ! Reign of reason , all hail ! And when the victory shall be complete , -when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth , how proud ...
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... live , fighting Indians , it was more than I did ; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes , and al- though I never fainted from the loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry . Mr. Speaker , if I should ...
... live , fighting Indians , it was more than I did ; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes , and al- though I never fainted from the loss of blood , I can truly say I was often very hungry . Mr. Speaker , if I should ...
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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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