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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... important ; not with a self - con- ceited flippancy , but with a sort of every - day - affair ease and simplicity of treatment which seemed suddenly to divest them of all extraneous matters , and to leave them so clearly defined in all ...
... important ; not with a self - con- ceited flippancy , but with a sort of every - day - affair ease and simplicity of treatment which seemed suddenly to divest them of all extraneous matters , and to leave them so clearly defined in all ...
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... important years spent by Mr. Lincoln as an Indianian , we cannot refrain from presenting to our readers the following graphic personal recollections of a distinguished lawyer * who emigrated to that State about the same time , inas ...
... important years spent by Mr. Lincoln as an Indianian , we cannot refrain from presenting to our readers the following graphic personal recollections of a distinguished lawyer * who emigrated to that State about the same time , inas ...
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... importance , not to himself alone , but to his country , to humanity itself - and , looking at his now perfectly completed life , we can see how , step by step , every phase of his varied experience was made subservient to his proper ...
... importance , not to himself alone , but to his country , to humanity itself - and , looking at his now perfectly completed life , we can see how , step by step , every phase of his varied experience was made subservient to his proper ...
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... important political events of the day - his steadily - increasing conception of their importance not only to his own community , but to the country - ere long drew him into the vortex of politics . During the Presidential canvass of ...
... important political events of the day - his steadily - increasing conception of their importance not only to his own community , but to the country - ere long drew him into the vortex of politics . During the Presidential canvass of ...
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... important point in a controversy , and the same tenacity in holding it fast and thwarting his opponent's utmost efforts to obscure it and cover it up , to draw attention to other points and raise false issues , which were the marked ...
... important point in a controversy , and the same tenacity in holding it fast and thwarting his opponent's utmost efforts to obscure it and cover it up , to draw attention to other points and raise false issues , which were the marked ...
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