Selections from LincolnC. Scribner's Sons, 1927 - 402 pages |
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Page xi
... thing unnatural in any man to whom somehow sex , in and of itself , is not rather ridiculous . Inscrutable as the observation is , there is much to be said for its truth as applied to the average man . Returning now to the grossness of ...
... thing unnatural in any man to whom somehow sex , in and of itself , is not rather ridiculous . Inscrutable as the observation is , there is much to be said for its truth as applied to the average man . Returning now to the grossness of ...
Page xii
... thing about the fables of Abe Lincoln . A precious anecdote preserves this early and persistent impression . Mrs ... things we laugh at . ' And then he entered into a discussion on what have been termed his ' broad ' stories . He ...
... thing about the fables of Abe Lincoln . A precious anecdote preserves this early and persistent impression . Mrs ... things we laugh at . ' And then he entered into a discussion on what have been termed his ' broad ' stories . He ...
Page xiii
... thing in which they were all agreed . " It is equally clear I believe that while Lincoln had no compunctions about sex as subject matter for stories he was one of those men for whom Chesterton's dictum will always be mysteriously ...
... thing in which they were all agreed . " It is equally clear I believe that while Lincoln had no compunctions about sex as subject matter for stories he was one of those men for whom Chesterton's dictum will always be mysteriously ...
Page xvii
... thing about him shows it : if I was deaf and blind , I could tell him by the smell . I seed him when I was down in Springfield last winter . They had a sort of a gatherin ' there one night among the grandees , they called a fair . All ...
... thing about him shows it : if I was deaf and blind , I could tell him by the smell . I seed him when I was down in Springfield last winter . They had a sort of a gatherin ' there one night among the grandees , they called a fair . All ...
Page xxvi
... thing ; the principles which direct the thought of so many of America's present - day advertisers , were ab- horrent to this strange man of 1854. In all the com- plicated argument of the 73 pages of the Peoria speech in the Gettysburg ...
... thing ; the principles which direct the thought of so many of America's present - day advertisers , were ab- horrent to this strange man of 1854. In all the com- plicated argument of the 73 pages of the Peoria speech in the Gettysburg ...
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Page 80 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 96 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 151 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 128 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 218 - These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them.
Page 156 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 79 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 246 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 207 - ... may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.
Page 73 - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still : woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless...