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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... seemed to set him apart from ordinary mortals . But LINCOLN , while living , and yet more truly since his death , holds a not inferior place in the hearts of his countrymen . It has been happily said of him , that " what Robert Burns ...
... seemed to set him apart from ordinary mortals . But LINCOLN , while living , and yet more truly since his death , holds a not inferior place in the hearts of his countrymen . It has been happily said of him , that " what Robert Burns ...
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... seemed suddenly to divest them of all extraneous matters , and to leave them so clearly defined in all their relations , as to excite our surprise and admiration . Indeed , the rare art of " put- ting things , " was possessed by this ...
... seemed suddenly to divest them of all extraneous matters , and to leave them so clearly defined in all their relations , as to excite our surprise and admiration . Indeed , the rare art of " put- ting things , " was possessed by this ...
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... seemed imminent ; volunteer com- panies were immediately formed in those States most exposed to the foe , and among others , a company was raised in Menard county , in the formation of which , Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously active ...
... seemed imminent ; volunteer com- panies were immediately formed in those States most exposed to the foe , and among others , a company was raised in Menard county , in the formation of which , Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously active ...
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... seemed now on the point of becoming a reality . And notwithstanding their prema- ture advance from Prophetstown had left them without the necessary supplies , and subjected them to many privations , they made up for the absence of their ...
... seemed now on the point of becoming a reality . And notwithstanding their prema- ture advance from Prophetstown had left them without the necessary supplies , and subjected them to many privations , they made up for the absence of their ...
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... seemed to be an unprofitable warfare , he remained true and persistent to his convictions of duty ; as eager for the fray , and as ambitious to perform every item of a soldier's labor as he was at the outset . His imagination had not ...
... seemed to be an unprofitable warfare , he remained true and persistent to his convictions of duty ; as eager for the fray , and as ambitious to perform every item of a soldier's labor as he was at the outset . His imagination had not ...
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