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... American continent, preparations were being made to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the humblest, simplest and plainest of our national leaders, whose name no American can utter without emotion ...
... American continent, preparations were being made to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the humblest, simplest and plainest of our national leaders, whose name no American can utter without emotion ...
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... American does not shout when he hears Lincoln's name. Even the political demagogue, the stock gambler, the captain of industry, aye, the sorriest scarecrow of a yellow journalist, is likely to grow silent and reverential when that word ...
... American does not shout when he hears Lincoln's name. Even the political demagogue, the stock gambler, the captain of industry, aye, the sorriest scarecrow of a yellow journalist, is likely to grow silent and reverential when that word ...
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... American people have for his memory is to be explained by the fact that in the secret recesses where every man communes with the highest, bravest and most unselfish elements of his own nature, the average American is an Abraham Lincoln ...
... American people have for his memory is to be explained by the fact that in the secret recesses where every man communes with the highest, bravest and most unselfish elements of his own nature, the average American is an Abraham Lincoln ...
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... American ancestry of pure English Quaker stock—one was a member of the Boston Tea Party; another was a revolutionary ... America, dwelt in a log hut, fourteen feet square, at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where they were married. Then a ...
... American ancestry of pure English Quaker stock—one was a member of the Boston Tea Party; another was a revolutionary ... America, dwelt in a log hut, fourteen feet square, at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where they were married. Then a ...
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... American , however poor , ignorant , unlettered or discouraged , can look upon the rude timbers of the home which sheltered the birth of the greatest man of the Western Hemisphere without a thrill of hope and a new realization of the ...
... American , however poor , ignorant , unlettered or discouraged , can look upon the rude timbers of the home which sheltered the birth of the greatest man of the Western Hemisphere without a thrill of hope and a new realization of the ...
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