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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... vote for Euclid . ' " Books of course , were his great delight , and the pro- curing of a sufficient number of them to employ his mind , one of his principal anxieties . In this his father did much to aid him , and whenever he heard of ...
... vote for Euclid . ' " Books of course , were his great delight , and the pro- curing of a sufficient number of them to employ his mind , one of his principal anxieties . In this his father did much to aid him , and whenever he heard of ...
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... vote in his own precinct , where he was best if not almost exclusively known , as may almost be said to have made his fortune . His precinct ( he had now settled in Sangamon county ) was strongly for Jackson , while Lincoln had , from ...
... vote in his own precinct , where he was best if not almost exclusively known , as may almost be said to have made his fortune . His precinct ( he had now settled in Sangamon county ) was strongly for Jackson , while Lincoln had , from ...
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... votes cast in his precinct , two hundred and seventy- seven the entire vote wanting seven - were cast for him ; there being , in all , eight aspirants for the legis lative distinction . Yet , a little later in the same canvass , General ...
... votes cast in his precinct , two hundred and seventy- seven the entire vote wanting seven - were cast for him ; there being , in all , eight aspirants for the legis lative distinction . Yet , a little later in the same canvass , General ...
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... vote for these resolutions , and in order to extricate himself from the false position in which the opposition sought to place him , he and Daniel Stone , his colleague from Sangamon county , availed themselves MR . LINCOLN AS A ...
... vote for these resolutions , and in order to extricate himself from the false position in which the opposition sought to place him , he and Daniel Stone , his colleague from Sangamon county , availed themselves MR . LINCOLN AS A ...
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... party , that by general consent he received the Whig vote for the speakership - which he failed to get only after a very close contest , his opponent having a ma- jority of one over all others , two Whigs ( 78 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... party , that by general consent he received the Whig vote for the speakership - which he failed to get only after a very close contest , his opponent having a ma- jority of one over all others , two Whigs ( 78 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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