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Their ambition aspired to display before an admiring world a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition which had hitherto been considered at best no better than ...
Their ambition aspired to display before an admiring world a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition which had hitherto been considered at best no better than ...
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а already equaled the better half of the country , how long its future prosecution will be in equaling the less valuable half is not a speculative , but a practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which ...
а already equaled the better half of the country , how long its future prosecution will be in equaling the less valuable half is not a speculative , but a practical , question , pressing closely upon us . And yet it is a question which ...
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That will be the phase of the question when it first becomes a practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kansas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law .
That will be the phase of the question when it first becomes a practical one . In your assumption that there may be a fair decision of the slavery question in Kansas , I plainly see you and I would differ about the Nebraska law .
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And although it has always submitted patiently to whatever of inequality there seemed to be as matter of actual necessity , its constant working has been a steady progress toward the practical equality of all men .
And although it has always submitted patiently to whatever of inequality there seemed to be as matter of actual necessity , its constant working has been a steady progress toward the practical equality of all men .
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... augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere . The assertion that " all men are created equal ” was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the ...
... augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere . The assertion that " all men are created equal ” was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain ; and it was placed in the ...
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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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