Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 113Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1926 - American literature |
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... Lincoln might have said , was whispering to him : " Choose well , your choice is Brief , but yet endless ! " We do not know what it was that stopped his ears . But he preferred to appeal for the suffrages of the un- thinking multitude ...
... Lincoln might have said , was whispering to him : " Choose well , your choice is Brief , but yet endless ! " We do not know what it was that stopped his ears . But he preferred to appeal for the suffrages of the un- thinking multitude ...
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... Lincoln and George Inness , Jr. , were in a measure the unfortunate victims of a fate often meted out to the sons of famous and illustrious sires . Inness , Jr. , was born January 5 , 1854 , in Paris , whither the family had gone that ...
... Lincoln and George Inness , Jr. , were in a measure the unfortunate victims of a fate often meted out to the sons of famous and illustrious sires . Inness , Jr. , was born January 5 , 1854 , in Paris , whither the family had gone that ...
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... Lincoln's vision of our destiny , but perhaps we can grasp the meaning of it now better than our elders could . We visit Europe , made up of great nations often no larger in territory than our States , and we observe that though each ...
... Lincoln's vision of our destiny , but perhaps we can grasp the meaning of it now better than our elders could . We visit Europe , made up of great nations often no larger in territory than our States , and we observe that though each ...
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... Lincoln , never , before this pres- ent moment , have we quite known how lucky we were . This year we might very well give thanks . Call it providence , if you prefer , instead of luck . But the danger of calling it providence is that ...
... Lincoln , never , before this pres- ent moment , have we quite known how lucky we were . This year we might very well give thanks . Call it providence , if you prefer , instead of luck . But the danger of calling it providence is that ...
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... Lincoln almost the silent hero of the book , the shadow of greatness which lay across the dingy village . In " Lee " Lincoln is almost the villain , who out of loy- alty to the dead hand of John Mar- shall and fidelity to a metaphys ...
... Lincoln almost the silent hero of the book , the shadow of greatness which lay across the dingy village . In " Lee " Lincoln is almost the villain , who out of loy- alty to the dead hand of John Mar- shall and fidelity to a metaphys ...
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