Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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Page 27
... adopt the oath that I take ? Let none falter who thinks he is right , and we may succeed . But if , after all , we shall fail , be it so . We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences , and to the departed ...
... adopt the oath that I take ? Let none falter who thinks he is right , and we may succeed . But if , after all , we shall fail , be it so . We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences , and to the departed ...
Page 30
... adopt this as the last method I can adopt to aid you , in case ( which God forbid ! ) you shall need any aid . I do not place what I am going to say on paper because I can say it better that way than I could by word of mouth , but ...
... adopt this as the last method I can adopt to aid you , in case ( which God forbid ! ) you shall need any aid . I do not place what I am going to say on paper because I can say it better that way than I could by word of mouth , but ...
Page 33
... adopted have not been the most proper . These champions for the most part have been preachers , lawyers , and hired agents . Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approach- ability , if the term be admissible ...
... adopted have not been the most proper . These champions for the most part have been preachers , lawyers , and hired agents . Between these and the mass of mankind there is a want of approach- ability , if the term be admissible ...
Page 35
... adopted . It is an old and a true maxim “ that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall . " So with men . If you would win a man to your cause , first convince him that you are his sincere friend . Therein is a drop of ...
... adopted . It is an old and a true maxim “ that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall . " So with men . If you would win a man to your cause , first convince him that you are his sincere friend . Therein is a drop of ...
Page 36
... adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so fiendishly selfish , so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing ...
... adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so fiendishly selfish , so like throwing fathers and brothers overboard to lighten the boat for our security , that the noble - minded shrank from the manifest meanness of the thing ...
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