The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred PresidentJohn Gilmary Shea |
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... never in life an idler. His life here during the next twelve years furnishes few incidents. For education, his opportunities were even less than in his native State ; but he was ambitious, and sought to improve. Books were not more ...
... never in life an idler. His life here during the next twelve years furnishes few incidents. For education, his opportunities were even less than in his native State ; but he was ambitious, and sought to improve. Books were not more ...
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... never failed him. Naturally modest, he discharged his legislative duties without any of the parade or elation which makes some inexperienced members mere tools of the wily politician or personally ridiculous. His clearness and eloquence ...
... never failed him. Naturally modest, he discharged his legislative duties without any of the parade or elation which makes some inexperienced members mere tools of the wily politician or personally ridiculous. His clearness and eloquence ...
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... never swerved by flattery or fear - all these , and the great results effected under his administration , have given him in the heart of the people a place second only to that of the Father of his Country . The sudden and terrible ...
... never swerved by flattery or fear - all these , and the great results effected under his administration , have given him in the heart of the people a place second only to that of the Father of his Country . The sudden and terrible ...
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... never been the slightest charge of any thing to detract from a high moral character . He was too great to stoop to vile means to accom- plish his ends . No Cæsar he , whom we lament , A Man without a precedent , Sent , it would seem ...
... never been the slightest charge of any thing to detract from a high moral character . He was too great to stoop to vile means to accom- plish his ends . No Cæsar he , whom we lament , A Man without a precedent , Sent , it would seem ...
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... never in life an idler . His life here during the next twelve years furnishes few incidents . For education , his opportunities were even less than in his native State ; but he was ambitious , and sought to improve . Books were not more ...
... never in life an idler . His life here during the next twelve years furnishes few incidents . For education , his opportunities were even less than in his native State ; but he was ambitious , and sought to improve . Books were not more ...
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