The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death |
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... successful , and he sold out . Meanwhile , he was still employing every opportunity offered him to improve his mind . He had mastered grammar , and occupied his leisure time in general reading , taking care to write out a synopsis of ...
... successful , and he sold out . Meanwhile , he was still employing every opportunity offered him to improve his mind . He had mastered grammar , and occupied his leisure time in general reading , taking care to write out a synopsis of ...
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... he consented to become a candidate , was morally certain . In this same year , how- ever , he was the Whig candidate in Illinois for United States Senator , but without success - the Democrats hav- STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 41.
... he consented to become a candidate , was morally certain . In this same year , how- ever , he was the Whig candidate in Illinois for United States Senator , but without success - the Democrats hav- STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 41.
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... success - the Democrats hav- ing the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of ... successful lawyer and rising politi- cian of Central Illinois . Neither his practice nor his politics took up so much ...
... success - the Democrats hav- ing the control of the State , which they retained until the conflict arising out of ... successful lawyer and rising politi- cian of Central Illinois . Neither his practice nor his politics took up so much ...
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... success , but we tacitly admit that we act upon no other principle than a desire to have " the loaves and fishes , " by which , in the end , our apparent success is really an injury to us . During the latter part of that year ( 1859 ) ...
... success , but we tacitly admit that we act upon no other principle than a desire to have " the loaves and fishes , " by which , in the end , our apparent success is really an injury to us . During the latter part of that year ( 1859 ) ...
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... success . In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone ; but this has had no tendency to convince them . Alike unavailing to convince them is the fact that they have never detected a man ...
... success . In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone ; but this has had no tendency to convince them . Alike unavailing to convince them is the fact that they have never detected a man ...
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