Abraham LincolnHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... speech than to work . His audience - John Johnston , Dennis Hanks , and the three girls were - ever ready to clap their hands at his perform- ance . ( " ) Abraham was hun- gry for intellectual food . He walked twelve miles to David A ...
... speech than to work . His audience - John Johnston , Dennis Hanks , and the three girls were - ever ready to clap their hands at his perform- ance . ( " ) Abraham was hun- gry for intellectual food . He walked twelve miles to David A ...
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... Speeches were made - some uphold- ing Jackson , others supporting Henry Clay . The cook told funny stories and declared himself in favor of Clay . A sleight - of - hand per- former was along , and , among other tricks performed , eggs ...
... Speeches were made - some uphold- ing Jackson , others supporting Henry Clay . The cook told funny stories and declared himself in favor of Clay . A sleight - of - hand per- former was along , and , among other tricks performed , eggs ...
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... speech and the rules which govern the construction of language . He had no one to teach him , but went on as best he could . ( " ) While the clerk was waiting upon customers , keeping exact accounts , and getting on with his grammar ...
... speech and the rules which govern the construction of language . He had no one to teach him , but went on as best he could . ( " ) While the clerk was waiting upon customers , keeping exact accounts , and getting on with his grammar ...
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... speeches and plenty of liquor . A young lawyer wrote a " poem : " " Now we are up the Sangamon , And here we'll have a grand hurrah ; So fill your glasses to the brim With whiskey , brandy , wine , and gin . ” ( 1 ) The " Talisman ...
... speeches and plenty of liquor . A young lawyer wrote a " poem : " " Now we are up the Sangamon , And here we'll have a grand hurrah ; So fill your glasses to the brim With whiskey , brandy , wine , and gin . ” ( 1 ) The " Talisman ...
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... speeches in the villages throughout the county . There was to be an auction of horses , cattle , and pigs at Pappsville , twelve miles from Springfield , where all the candidates would speak . The people for miles around would be there ...
... speeches in the villages throughout the county . There was to be an auction of horses , cattle , and pigs at Pappsville , twelve miles from Springfield , where all the candidates would speak . The people for miles around would be there ...
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Page 238 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend
Page 354 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 354 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 110 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 487 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as...
Page 402 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 487 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 217 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 347 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south.
Page 336 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.