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... hope to find refuge from justice , can at all doubt that they are most distressingly affected in their heels with a species of " run- ning itch . " It seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest ...
... hope to find refuge from justice , can at all doubt that they are most distressingly affected in their heels with a species of " run- ning itch . " It seems that this malady of their heels operates on these sound - headed and honest ...
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... hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress about her health and her life must and will forever banish those horrid doubts which I know you sometimes felt as to the truth of your affection for her . If they can once and ...
... hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress about her health and her life must and will forever banish those horrid doubts which I know you sometimes felt as to the truth of your affection for her . If they can once and ...
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... hope of the verses attracting any favorable notice to tempt me to risk being ridiculed for having written them . [ Letter to William H. Herndon . Washington , D. C. , 13 December 1847. ] Dear William : Your letter , advising me of the ...
... hope of the verses attracting any favorable notice to tempt me to risk being ridiculed for having written them . [ Letter to William H. Herndon . Washington , D. C. , 13 December 1847. ] Dear William : Your letter , advising me of the ...
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... hope to succeed well enough to wish you to see it . It is very pleasant to learn from you that there are some who desire that I should be reëlected . I most heartily thank them for their kind partiality ; and I can say , as Mr. Clay ...
... hope to succeed well enough to wish you to see it . It is very pleasant to learn from you that there are some who desire that I should be reëlected . I most heartily thank them for their kind partiality ; and I can say , as Mr. Clay ...
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... hope • father may recover his health , but at all events , tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great and good and merciful Maker , who will not turn away from him in any extremity . He notes the fall of a sparrow , and ...
... hope • father may recover his health , but at all events , tell him to remember to call upon and confide in our great and good and merciful Maker , who will not turn away from him in any extremity . He notes the fall of a sparrow , and ...
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