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... speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences . Abstractly considered , the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg was of but little con- sequence ...
... speaking , but a small evil , and much of its danger consists in the proneness of our minds to regard its direct as its only consequences . Abstractly considered , the hanging of the gamblers at Vicksburg was of but little con- sequence ...
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... speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it . [ Letter to Mrs. O. H. Browning , Springfield , Illinois , 1 April 1838. ] Dear Madam : Without ...
... speak as plainly as I do . There can be neither harm nor danger in saying to me anything you think , just in the manner you think it . [ Letter to Mrs. O. H. Browning , Springfield , Illinois , 1 April 1838. ] Dear Madam : Without ...
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... speak , you say was the aggressor . I do not think I was . " words imported insult . " I meant them as a fair set - off to your own statements , and not otherwise ; and in that light alone I now wish you to understand them . You ask for ...
... speak , you say was the aggressor . I do not think I was . " words imported insult . " I meant them as a fair set - off to your own statements , and not otherwise ; and in that light alone I now wish you to understand them . You ask for ...
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... speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion of the Devil . The " But , " you will say , " do not your causes apply to every one engaged ...
... speak with judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion of the Devil . The " But , " you will say , " do not your causes apply to every one engaged ...
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... speak ; and the hired agent for his salary . But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before his neighbors " clothed and in his right mind , " a redeemed ...
... speak ; and the hired agent for his salary . But when one who has long been known as a victim of intemperance bursts the fetters that have bound him , and appears before his neighbors " clothed and in his right mind , " a redeemed ...
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