Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator: A Biographical SketchFunk & Wagnalls, 1891 - 398 pages |
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... nature of his mother , and the gloom of his surround- ings and prospects seemed to impress itself upon him , even at an age when most boys would have been oblivious to it . Whether working at his father's side , or wandering aimlessly ...
... nature of his mother , and the gloom of his surround- ings and prospects seemed to impress itself upon him , even at an age when most boys would have been oblivious to it . Whether working at his father's side , or wandering aimlessly ...
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... Nature has been very kind to Illinois and has granted it munificent gifts . Its broad and fertile prairies , its beautiful water - courses and the great coal measures that underlie it , are treasure - houses that ( 35 )
... Nature has been very kind to Illinois and has granted it munificent gifts . Its broad and fertile prairies , its beautiful water - courses and the great coal measures that underlie it , are treasure - houses that ( 35 )
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... nature to leap hastily to a conclusion . It was only after long thought and observation that his opinions attained the strength of convictions , but once formed , it was almost impossible to shake him from them . So now he observed all ...
... nature to leap hastily to a conclusion . It was only after long thought and observation that his opinions attained the strength of convictions , but once formed , it was almost impossible to shake him from them . So now he observed all ...
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... natural powers untrained . The difficulties that beset him , would , to another man , or in another age of the world , have been insurmountable . He had no money , and his clothes were of the poorest material : so coarse and ill ...
... natural powers untrained . The difficulties that beset him , would , to another man , or in another age of the world , have been insurmountable . He had no money , and his clothes were of the poorest material : so coarse and ill ...
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... nature of buckskin , when wet and dried by the sun it will shrink -- and mine kept shrinking until they left several inches of my legs . bare between the tops of my socks and the lower part of my breeches ; and while I was growing ...
... nature of buckskin , when wet and dried by the sun it will shrink -- and mine kept shrinking until they left several inches of my legs . bare between the tops of my socks and the lower part of my breeches ; and while I was growing ...
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Page 198 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 314 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 185 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the Colonies from the mother-land, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time.
Page 200 - If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 315 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 315 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offences, for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom...
Page 247 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 236 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it in the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be, the Union as it was.
Page 200 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it...
Page 198 - Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part ; and I shall perform it, so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or, in some authoritative manner, direct the contrary. I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as a declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. "In doing this, there need be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the...