Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln |
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Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . They believe that the institution of slavery ...
Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same . They believe that the institution of slavery ...
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... and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have com- menced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her .
... and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have com- menced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her .
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You ask for my present " feelings on the subject . " I entertain no unkind feelings to you , and none of any sort upon the subject , ex- cept a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an altercation .
You ask for my present " feelings on the subject . " I entertain no unkind feelings to you , and none of any sort upon the subject , ex- cept a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an altercation .
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Not that I am less capable of sympathizing with you now than ever , not that I am less your friend than ever , but because I hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress about her health and her life must and will forever ...
Not that I am less capable of sympathizing with you now than ever , not that I am less your friend than ever , but because I hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress about her health and her life must and will forever ...
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If you went through the ceremony calmly , or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in any present , you are safe beyond question , and in two or three months , to say the most , will be the happiest of men .
If you went through the ceremony calmly , or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in any present , you are safe beyond question , and in two or three months , to say the most , will be the happiest of men .
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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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