Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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... less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public , and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it . That I once had the con- fidence of the people of Sangamon , is sufficiently evident ...
... less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to the public , and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it . That I once had the con- fidence of the people of Sangamon , is sufficiently evident ...
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... less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friend- ship effectual . At such a time , and under such circum- stances , men of sufficient talent and ambition ...
... less alienated from it , and thus it will be left without friends , or with too few , and those few too weak to make their friend- ship effectual . At such a time , and under such circum- stances , men of sufficient talent and ambition ...
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... less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her . But what could I do ? I had told her sister that I would take her for better or for worse , and I made a point of honor and conscience in all ...
... less than thirty - five or forty years ; and , in short , I was not at all pleased with her . But what could I do ? I had told her sister that I would take her for better or for worse , and I made a point of honor and conscience in all ...
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... less than a request that his party may be tried by their professions instead of their practices . Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but ...
... less than a request that his party may be tried by their professions instead of their practices . Perhaps no position that the party assumes is more liable to or more deserving of exposure than this very modest request ; and nothing but ...
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... less extent perhaps , do apply in all cases ; but the general one , -nervous debility , which is the key and conductor of all the particular ones , and without which they would be utterly harmless , -though it does pertain to you , does ...
... less extent perhaps , do apply in all cases ; but the general one , -nervous debility , which is the key and conductor of all the particular ones , and without which they would be utterly harmless , -though it does pertain to you , does ...
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