The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Including His Speeches, Messages, Inaugurals, Proclamations, Etc., Etc |
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... desire to pander to so grovel- ling and base - born an ambition . But we have loved Abraham Lincoln as a child might love a father ; we have confided in him , have trusted his sagacity , have honored his patriotism , have admired that ...
... desire to pander to so grovel- ling and base - born an ambition . But we have loved Abraham Lincoln as a child might love a father ; we have confided in him , have trusted his sagacity , have honored his patriotism , have admired that ...
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... desire for knowledge - His modesty His personal fearlessness of danger - His kindness of heart - His honesty - Incidents of his visit to the Army of the Potomac - Absence of mind - He watches events - He remembers his friends - His ...
... desire for knowledge - His modesty His personal fearlessness of danger - His kindness of heart - His honesty - Incidents of his visit to the Army of the Potomac - Absence of mind - He watches events - He remembers his friends - His ...
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... desire of possession , and willingly relinquish all which they have gained for the sake of new excitements . Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of our subject , was of this class — a frontiersman , in the truest sense , whose rough but ...
... desire of possession , and willingly relinquish all which they have gained for the sake of new excitements . Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of our subject , was of this class — a frontiersman , in the truest sense , whose rough but ...
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... desire to see others happy , which afterward formed so prominent a trait in his character . Though uneducated in books , she was wise in the wisdom of experience and truth , and was to her son a faithful mentor as well as a good mother ...
... desire to see others happy , which afterward formed so prominent a trait in his character . Though uneducated in books , she was wise in the wisdom of experience and truth , and was to her son a faithful mentor as well as a good mother ...
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... desire of honor first touches his heart - strings , and when the first little " sip " at the fountain of know- lege , has developed a thirst which would drink deeply and forever . For it is at this critical moment - that of the charming ...
... desire of honor first touches his heart - strings , and when the first little " sip " at the fountain of know- lege , has developed a thirst which would drink deeply and forever . For it is at this critical moment - that of the charming ...
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