Letters and Addresses of Abraham LincolnUnit Book Publishing Company, 1903 - 389 pages |
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... popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to ...
... popular relations or friends to recommend me . My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of the country ; and , if elected , they will have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to ...
Page 36
... popular cause . We could not love the man who taught it — we could not hear him with patience . The heart could not throw open its portals to it , the generous man could not adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so ...
... popular cause . We could not love the man who taught it — we could not hear him with patience . The heart could not throw open its portals to it , the generous man could not adopt it - it could not mix with his blood . It looked so ...
Page 63
... popularity been to you . You not only twice made President of him out of it , but you have had enough of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since ; and it is your chief reliance now to make still ...
... popularity been to you . You not only twice made President of him out of it , but you have had enough of the stuff left to make Presidents of several comparatively small men since ; and it is your chief reliance now to make still ...
Page 70
... popular belief that lawyers are neces- sarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and con- ferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their ...
... popular belief that lawyers are neces- sarily dishonest . I say vague , because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and con- ferred upon lawyers by the people , it appears improbable that their ...
Page 98
... popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richard- son , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted , and executed for an offense not their own , but ...
... popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richard- son , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted , and executed for an offense not their own , but ...
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