Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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Page 13
... feeling such as this shall universally or even very generally prevail throughout the nation , vain will be every effort , and fruitless every attempt , to subvert our national freedom . When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of ...
... feeling such as this shall universally or even very generally prevail throughout the nation , vain will be every effort , and fruitless every attempt , to subvert our national freedom . When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of ...
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... feeling must fade , is fading , has faded , with the circumstances that produced it . I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten , but that , like everything else , they must fade ...
... feeling must fade , is fading , has faded , with the circumstances that produced it . I do not mean to say that the scenes of the Revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten , but that , like everything else , they must fade ...
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... feel yourself in any degree bound to me , I am now willing to release you , provided you wish it ; while , on the other hand , I am willing and even anxious to bind you faster , if I can be convinced that it will , in any considerable ...
... feel yourself in any degree bound to me , I am now willing to release you , provided you wish it ; while , on the other hand , I am willing and even anxious to bind you faster , if I can be convinced that it will , in any considerable ...
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... I , too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... I , too , may be ; bow to it I never will . The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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Abraham Lincoln. shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the world ...
Abraham Lincoln. shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the world ...
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