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Page 52
... occasion when he used it as an instrument for turning the military pretensions of another into ridicule . The friends of General Cass , when that gentleman was a candidate for the presidency , endeavored to endow him with a military ...
... occasion when he used it as an instrument for turning the military pretensions of another into ridicule . The friends of General Cass , when that gentleman was a candidate for the presidency , endeavored to endow him with a military ...
Page 61
... occasions . Cunning contrives plots ; ingenuity dissolves them . Cunning sets traps ; ingenuity evades them . Cunning envelops its victims in difficulties ; ingenuity helps them out of them . Cunning is the offspring of selfishness ...
... occasions . Cunning contrives plots ; ingenuity dissolves them . Cunning sets traps ; ingenuity evades them . Cunning envelops its victims in difficulties ; ingenuity helps them out of them . Cunning is the offspring of selfishness ...
Page 68
... occasions to do the important work in securing it . When it is remembered that he had achieved his position before the people and among the leading men of the state at the carly age of twenty - seven , it must be admitted that the ...
... occasions to do the important work in securing it . When it is remembered that he had achieved his position before the people and among the leading men of the state at the carly age of twenty - seven , it must be admitted that the ...
Page 73
... occasion afterward came to show the constancy of his gratitude and the faithfulness of his friendship . Arriving in Springfield he became a member of the family of Hon . William Butler , afterward treasurer of the state , and here came ...
... occasion afterward came to show the constancy of his gratitude and the faithfulness of his friendship . Arriving in Springfield he became a member of the family of Hon . William Butler , afterward treasurer of the state , and here came ...
Page 78
... occasion , while engaged upon an important case , he dis- covered that he was on the wrong side . His associate in the case was immediately informed that he ( Lincoln ) would not make the plea . The associate made it , and the case ...
... occasion , while engaged upon an important case , he dis- covered that he was on the wrong side . His associate in the case was immediately informed that he ( Lincoln ) would not make the plea . The associate made it , and the case ...
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