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... thought much about politics , though I believed our state was right when she went out . But when the bells were ringing , and everybody was rejoicing that she had seceded , a solemn feeling came over me , like I had never had in my life ...
... thought much about politics , though I believed our state was right when she went out . But when the bells were ringing , and everybody was rejoicing that she had seceded , a solemn feeling came over me , like I had never had in my life ...
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... thought that before me stood a man in the full vigor of health , who must in a few moments enter eternity . I sent up the petition that he might be saved . Awful was the thought that he might in a few minutes receive the sentence ...
... thought that before me stood a man in the full vigor of health , who must in a few moments enter eternity . I sent up the petition that he might be saved . Awful was the thought that he might in a few minutes receive the sentence ...
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... thought their problem through . Yet all history has established this principle : the great ancient civilizations ... thought . Men , and all other social and gregarious ani- mals , have a community of thought , of motions , instincts ...
... thought their problem through . Yet all history has established this principle : the great ancient civilizations ... thought . Men , and all other social and gregarious ani- mals , have a community of thought , of motions , instincts ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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