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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... responsibilities of a four years ' war , such , for extent and principles involved , as the world had never before seen ; amid questions , civil , military , and political ; amid defeats and party clamor 24 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... responsibilities of a four years ' war , such , for extent and principles involved , as the world had never before seen ; amid questions , civil , military , and political ; amid defeats and party clamor 24 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... , amid all his weighty responsibilities , no fault is imputed , except that of too much kindness - whose life we now purpose to write . CHAPTER I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD IN KENTUCKY . His Ancestry 26 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... , amid all his weighty responsibilities , no fault is imputed , except that of too much kindness - whose life we now purpose to write . CHAPTER I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD IN KENTUCKY . His Ancestry 26 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... responsibility . From her he derived the spirit of humor and the 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 ...
... responsibility . From her he derived the spirit of humor and the 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 ...
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... responsibility , when it was clearly their will and satisfactory to the people whose interests were in- volved . At the close of this period , with scarcely any consciousness of the fact himself , and with no noisy demonstrations or ...
... responsibility , when it was clearly their will and satisfactory to the people whose interests were in- volved . At the close of this period , with scarcely any consciousness of the fact himself , and with no noisy demonstrations or ...
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... responsibility which his sense of justice impelled him to take . And though one of the youngest and most inexperienced members of an uncommonly able and brilliant Congress , he would long have been remembered , even without the more ...
... responsibility which his sense of justice impelled him to take . And though one of the youngest and most inexperienced members of an uncommonly able and brilliant Congress , he would long have been remembered , even without the more ...
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