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wwwww wwww RETURNING from a visit to Kentucky , Lincoln writes to , the sister of his friend “ Josh ” Speed ... LETTER TO MARY SPEED Bloomington , Ill . , September 27 , 1841 Y FRIEND : MY Having resolved to write to some of your ...
wwwww wwww RETURNING from a visit to Kentucky , Lincoln writes to , the sister of his friend “ Josh ” Speed ... LETTER TO MARY SPEED Bloomington , Ill . , September 27 , 1841 Y FRIEND : MY Having resolved to write to some of your ...
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I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but ...
I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but ...
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And so , it seems , this is the point on which the , writer thinks I have no policy . Why will he not read and understand what I have said ? The substance of the very declaration he desires is in the inaugural , in each of the two ...
And so , it seems , this is the point on which the , writer thinks I have no policy . Why will he not read and understand what I have said ? The substance of the very declaration he desires is in the inaugural , in each of the two ...
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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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