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... all the people represented in it , my profoundest thanks for the high honor done me , which you now formally announce . Deeply and even painfully sensible of the great responsibility which is inseparable from this high honor - a [ 77 ]
... all the people represented in it , my profoundest thanks for the high honor done me , which you now formally announce . Deeply and even painfully sensible of the great responsibility which is inseparable from this high honor - a [ 77 ]
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responsibility which is inseparable from this high honor - a responsibility which I could almost wish had fallen upon some one of the far more eminent men and experienced statesmen whose distinguished namės were before the convention ...
responsibility which is inseparable from this high honor - a responsibility which I could almost wish had fallen upon some one of the far more eminent men and experienced statesmen whose distinguished namės were before the convention ...
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Now , the undertaking being a success , the honor is all yours ; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce . And taking the work of General Thomas into the count , as it should be taken , it [ 251 ] To William Tecumseh ...
Now , the undertaking being a success , the honor is all yours ; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce . And taking the work of General Thomas into the count , as it should be taken , it [ 251 ] To William Tecumseh ...
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: As Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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