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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... thought of self , but always sought his country's good ; a chief magistrate , who though reviled reviled not again , but with an almost angelic patience , sought to do good to those who despitefully used him ; a diplomatist who believed ...
... thought of self , but always sought his country's good ; a chief magistrate , who though reviled reviled not again , but with an almost angelic patience , sought to do good to those who despitefully used him ; a diplomatist who believed ...
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... thought and action in which the masses move and have their being . The influence of gentle blood , the advan- tages of education , wealth and position , which moulded his earlier life , conspired to make him the representative of the ...
... thought and action in which the masses move and have their being . The influence of gentle blood , the advan- tages of education , wealth and position , which moulded his earlier life , conspired to make him the representative of the ...
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... thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and the boy was set down as a prodigy when he wrote to an old friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave ...
... thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and the boy was set down as a prodigy when he wrote to an old friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave ...
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... thought the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year . He was never in a college or academy as a student , and never inside a college or academy till since he had a law- license ; and what he had in the way of education ...
... thought the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year . He was never in a college or academy as a student , and never inside a college or academy till since he had a law- license ; and what he had in the way of education ...
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... thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and the boy was set down as a prodigy when he wrote to an old friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave ...
... thought unnecessary , but his father quietly persisted , and the boy was set down as a prodigy when he wrote to an old friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave ...
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