The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwww WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww RETURNING from a visit to Kentucky , Lincoln writes to the sister of his friend “ Josh " Speed , giving news of her brother's health and a vivid ...
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I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute because you have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive ...
I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute because you have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive ...
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And so , it seems , this is the point on which the writer thinks I have no policy . Why will he not read and understand what I have said ? The substance of the very declaration he desires is in the inaugural , in each of the two regular ...
And so , it seems , this is the point on which the writer thinks I have no policy . Why will he not read and understand what I have said ? The substance of the very declaration he desires is in the inaugural , in each of the two regular ...
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POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To Stephen A Douglas | 55 |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | Greenberg, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 17 Nov 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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