Abraham Lincoln as a Man of LettersReilly & Britton Company, 1918 - 342 pages |
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... believe . He was accustomed to generalize upon what he observed and knew . The few fragments he has left us as notes for a law lecture and for a popular lecture on Niagara Falls , as well as his observations on the nature and objects of ...
... believe . He was accustomed to generalize upon what he observed and knew . The few fragments he has left us as notes for a law lecture and for a popular lecture on Niagara Falls , as well as his observations on the nature and objects of ...
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... believe that Burke never made a mistake or a failure in his life . History is not history unless it is the truth . " It was of course Lincoln's misfortune not to have known the field of biography beyond Weems's Washington , and probably ...
... believe that Burke never made a mistake or a failure in his life . History is not history unless it is the truth . " It was of course Lincoln's misfortune not to have known the field of biography beyond Weems's Washington , and probably ...
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... believe this government cannot endure per- manently , half slave and half free . . . . . . 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 ...
... believe this government cannot endure per- manently , half slave and half free . . . . . . 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 ...
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... believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone . " During the following winter , he prepared a lecture on " Discoveries , Inventions , and Improvements . " This he delivered " at ...
... believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone . " During the following winter , he prepared a lecture on " Discoveries , Inventions , and Improvements . " This he delivered " at ...
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... believe a word he says , but I can't help clapping him , he is so pat ! ' That I call the tri- umph of oratory . . . . Indeed , sir , I learned more of the art of public speaking last evening than I could from a whole course of lectures ...
... believe a word he says , but I can't help clapping him , he is so pat ! ' That I call the tri- umph of oratory . . . . Indeed , sir , I learned more of the art of public speaking last evening than I could from a whole course of lectures ...
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Page 277 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Page 153 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 303 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; 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. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 269 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.0
Page 174 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 225 - 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 197 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending, seems plain.
Page 276 - ... commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred...
Page 262 - I therefore consider that, in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken ; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the states.
Page 86 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.