Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath SchoolWestern Tract and Book Society, 1869 - 200 pages |
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... facts and attending circumstances of Lincoln's life produce also an argument of a different cast and higher range . However nakedly stated , and for what- ever purpose , they illuminate the truth of the discrim- inating , particular ...
... facts and attending circumstances of Lincoln's life produce also an argument of a different cast and higher range . However nakedly stated , and for what- ever purpose , they illuminate the truth of the discrim- inating , particular ...
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... fact the only reliance of the pioneers for meat - and doubtless little Abe , with his father , often followed the bay of the trusty ' coon - dog , in the darkness and stillness of the heavy forests ; yet he never afterward so greatly A ...
... fact the only reliance of the pioneers for meat - and doubtless little Abe , with his father , often followed the bay of the trusty ' coon - dog , in the darkness and stillness of the heavy forests ; yet he never afterward so greatly A ...
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... fact that there was no grist - mill nearer than fifty miles distant from their home , and that was a rude affair , in which the grinding - stones were slowly turned by a horse hitched at the end of a lever . Meal was usually ...
... fact that there was no grist - mill nearer than fifty miles distant from their home , and that was a rude affair , in which the grinding - stones were slowly turned by a horse hitched at the end of a lever . Meal was usually ...
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... facts of his proposition are not true , as stated . God did not place good and evil before man , telling him to make his choice . On the contrary , he did tell him there was one tree of the fruit of which , if he ate , he should surely ...
... facts of his proposition are not true , as stated . God did not place good and evil before man , telling him to make his choice . On the contrary , he did tell him there was one tree of the fruit of which , if he ate , he should surely ...
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... fact that they were collected and published in full , giving Mr. Douglas's speeches without abridgment , by the Republicans in other States , and circulated free as campaign docu- ments . The result of this campaign was that the Re ...
... fact that they were collected and published in full , giving Mr. Douglas's speeches without abridgment , by the Republicans in other States , and circulated free as campaign docu- ments . The result of this campaign was that the Re ...
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