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... positions is necessarily true that is , the thing is right within itself , and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good citizens , or it is wrong , and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments ; and in ...
... positions is necessarily true that is , the thing is right within itself , and therefore deserves the protection of all law and all good citizens , or it is wrong , and therefore proper to be prohibited by legal enactments ; and in ...
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... position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but the unwarrantable length to which I have already extended these remarks forbids me now attempting to expose ...
... position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but the unwarrantable length to which I have already extended these remarks forbids me now attempting to expose ...
Page 36
... position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temper- ance might abound , to the temperate then , and to all man- kind some ...
... position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible , and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temper- ance might abound , to the temperate then , and to all man- kind some ...
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... man who could maintain this position most stiffly , what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sun- day and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head ? Not a trifle , I'll venture . 37 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... man who could maintain this position most stiffly , what compensation he will accept to go to church some Sun- day and sit during the sermon with his wife's bonnet upon his head ? Not a trifle , I'll venture . 37 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... Position : A plank ten feet long , and from nine to twelve inches broad , to be firmly fixed on edge , on the ground , as the line between us , which neither is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life . Next a line drawn on the ...
... Position : A plank ten feet long , and from nine to twelve inches broad , to be firmly fixed on edge , on the ground , as the line between us , which neither is to pass his foot over upon forfeit of his life . Next a line drawn on the ...
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