Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... reason ; but whatever may be its natural advantages , cer- tain it is that it never can be practically useful to any great extent without being greatly im- proved by art . The drifted timber , as I have before mentioned , is the most ...
... reason ; but whatever may be its natural advantages , cer- tain it is that it never can be practically useful to any great extent without being greatly im- proved by art . The drifted timber , as I have before mentioned , is the most ...
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... reason , all hail ! " And when the victory shall be complete , - when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunk- ard on the earth , - how proud the title of that Land which may truly claim to be the birth- place and the cradle of both ...
... reason , all hail ! " And when the victory shall be complete , - when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunk- ard on the earth , - how proud the title of that Land which may truly claim to be the birth- place and the cradle of both ...
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... this eulogy , and of at least one other address made by Mr. Lincoln . No selections are made from this eulogy for obvious reasons . It was regarded at the time as unworthy of its 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN . The Eulogy upon Henry Clay.
... this eulogy , and of at least one other address made by Mr. Lincoln . No selections are made from this eulogy for obvious reasons . It was regarded at the time as unworthy of its 40 ABRAHAM LINCOLN . The Eulogy upon Henry Clay.
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... reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then into a Territory covered by the congres- sional prohibition , and held him as a slave for a long time in each , was passing through the United States ...
... reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then into a Territory covered by the congres- sional prohibition , and held him as a slave for a long time in each , was passing through the United States ...
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... reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any par- ticular change , of which he himself has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I wish not to misrepresent Judge ...
... reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any par- ticular change , of which he himself has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I wish not to misrepresent Judge ...
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