Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public ServicesSaalfield Publishing Company, 1910 - 277 pages |
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... friend of his mother , a travelling preacher , whom he desired to come and preach her funeral sermon . Parson Elkins did not receive the letter for some three months ; but then he hastened to Indiana , and the neighbors again assem ...
... friend of his mother , a travelling preacher , whom he desired to come and preach her funeral sermon . Parson Elkins did not receive the letter for some three months ; but then he hastened to Indiana , and the neighbors again assem ...
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... friend , he expressed regret that care and business had so long hin- dered him from performing this duty . He will never perform it . Instead of going to her grave , he has gone to her ; and blissful beyond human computation must have ...
... friend , he expressed regret that care and business had so long hin- dered him from performing this duty . He will never perform it . Instead of going to her grave , he has gone to her ; and blissful beyond human computation must have ...
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Phebe Ann Hanaford. friend as well as a step - mother sprang up a devoted at tachment ; and she ever acted as if she said to him in tender tones of ardent sympathy , using the words of Mrs. Welby , - " Child of the lost , the buried ...
Phebe Ann Hanaford. friend as well as a step - mother sprang up a devoted at tachment ; and she ever acted as if she said to him in tender tones of ardent sympathy , using the words of Mrs. Welby , - " Child of the lost , the buried ...
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... friend stood by his side . He was alone in poverty ; and yet not all alone . There was God above , who watches all , and does not desert the lowly . Simple in life and manners , and knowing nothing of form or ceremony , with a village ...
... friend stood by his side . He was alone in poverty ; and yet not all alone . There was God above , who watches all , and does not desert the lowly . Simple in life and manners , and knowing nothing of form or ceremony , with a village ...
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... friend Eckerman : " Each bon - mot has cost me a purse of gold : half a million of my own money , the fortune I inherited , my salary , and the large income I have derived from my writings for fifty years back , have been expended to in ...
... friend Eckerman : " Each bon - mot has cost me a purse of gold : half a million of my own money , the fortune I inherited , my salary , and the large income I have derived from my writings for fifty years back , have been expended to in ...
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