Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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Page 84
... held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control ; and I have sometimes ( with one , two or three , but never publicly ) tried to maintain this opinion in argu- ment . The habit of arguing thus however , I have ...
... held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control ; and I have sometimes ( with one , two or three , but never publicly ) tried to maintain this opinion in argu- ment . The habit of arguing thus however , I have ...
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... held and quieted the cat and enjoyed it . In July 1850 and in Chicago on a law case , Whigs pressed Lincoln to memorialize Zachary Taylor . He spoke as a Whig to Whigs , by inference defending the Whig policy toward the Mexican War ...
... held and quieted the cat and enjoyed it . In July 1850 and in Chicago on a law case , Whigs pressed Lincoln to memorialize Zachary Taylor . He spoke as a Whig to Whigs , by inference defending the Whig policy toward the Mexican War ...
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... held up and laid away amid unfinished business from day to day . He had gone out of his way to do so many things without the required authority from Congress . Now Congress politely refused to sanction all he had done . Some of the ...
... held up and laid away amid unfinished business from day to day . He had gone out of his way to do so many things without the required authority from Congress . Now Congress politely refused to sanction all he had done . Some of the ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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