Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... father , who was poor , improvident , and ignorant . His mother was an energetic Chris- tian woman of much refinement , whose devotion to her domestic and maternal duties soon wore out her frail body , but imprinted her image in ...
... father , who was poor , improvident , and ignorant . His mother was an energetic Chris- tian woman of much refinement , whose devotion to her domestic and maternal duties soon wore out her frail body , but imprinted her image in ...
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... father , and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty . Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap . Let it be taught in schools , in seminaries , and in ...
... father , and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty . Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap . Let it be taught in schools , in seminaries , and in ...
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... father , a son , or a brother , a living history was to be found in every family , tory bearing the indubitable testimonies to its own authenticity in the limbs mangled , in the scars of wounds received in the midst of the very scenes ...
... father , a son , or a brother , a living history was to be found in every family , tory bearing the indubitable testimonies to its own authenticity in the limbs mangled , in the scars of wounds received in the midst of the very scenes ...
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... fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death . To all the living everywhere we cry , ' Come , sound the moral trump , that these may rise and stand up an exceeding great army ! ' ' Come from ...
... fathers , our brothers , our sons , and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death . To all the living everywhere we cry , ' Come , sound the moral trump , that these may rise and stand up an exceeding great army ! ' ' Come from ...
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... Fathers of the Republic eschewed and rejected it . . . . The plain , unmistakable spirit of their age towards slavery was hostility to the principle , and tolera- tion only by necessity . • " But now it is to be transformed into a ...
... Fathers of the Republic eschewed and rejected it . . . . The plain , unmistakable spirit of their age towards slavery was hostility to the principle , and tolera- tion only by necessity . • " But now it is to be transformed into a ...
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Abraham Lincoln's Speeches Abraham Lincoln,L. E. (Lucius Eugene) 1824- Chittenden No preview available - 2016 |
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