The Words of Abraham Lincoln: For Use in SchoolsWestern Publishing House, 1898 - 270 pages |
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... run the same course our fathers have run . The thoughts we are thinking , our fathers would think ; From the death we are shrinking , our fathers would shrink ; To the life we are clinging , they also would 12 LINCOLN'S FAVORITE POEM .
... run the same course our fathers have run . The thoughts we are thinking , our fathers would think ; From the death we are shrinking , our fathers would shrink ; To the life we are clinging , they also would 12 LINCOLN'S FAVORITE POEM .
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... thought otherwise , has always waited , as a wise man should , till the right moment brought up all his reserves . Semper nocuit differre paratis , is a sound axiom , but the really efficacious man will also be sure to know when he is ...
... thought otherwise , has always waited , as a wise man should , till the right moment brought up all his reserves . Semper nocuit differre paratis , is a sound axiom , but the really efficacious man will also be sure to know when he is ...
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... thoughts he put upon paper , and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly . Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man , which he increased by his performances as a speaker ...
... thoughts he put upon paper , and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly . Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man , which he increased by his performances as a speaker ...
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... thought I had got it , I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over , until I had put it in language plain enough , as I thought , for any boy I knew to comprehend . This was a kind of passion with me , and it has stuck by ...
... thought I had got it , I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over , until I had put it in language plain enough , as I thought , for any boy I knew to comprehend . This was a kind of passion with me , and it has stuck by ...
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... thought , till I have bounded it north , and bounded it south , and bounded it east , and bounded it west . Perhaps that accounts for the characteristic you observe in my speeches , though I never put the two things together before . Oh ...
... thought , till I have bounded it north , and bounded it south , and bounded it east , and bounded it west . Perhaps that accounts for the characteristic you observe in my speeches , though I never put the two things together before . Oh ...
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