Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... regard to local affairs . 1 Interest is attached to this Address from the fact that it is the earliest - known product of Mr. Lincoln's pen . It was issued when , at the age of twenty - three , he was first a candidate for the office of ...
... regard to local affairs . 1 Interest is attached to this Address from the fact that it is the earliest - known product of Mr. Lincoln's pen . It was issued when , at the age of twenty - three , he was first a candidate for the office of ...
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... regard to the navigation of the Sangamon cannot but be founded in 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 ...
... regard to the navigation of the Sangamon cannot but be founded in 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 ...
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... regard to existing laws , some alterations are thought to be necessary . Many respectable men have suggested that our estray laws law respecting the issuing of executions , the road law , and some others are deficient in their present ...
... regard to existing laws , some alterations are thought to be necessary . Many respectable men have suggested that our estray laws law respecting the issuing of executions , the road law , and some others are deficient in their present ...
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Abraham Lincoln. in regard to any or all of them ; but , holding it a sound maxim that it is better only to be some- times right than at all times wrong , so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce ...
Abraham Lincoln. in regard to any or all of them ; but , holding it a sound maxim that it is better only to be some- times right than at all times wrong , so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce ...
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... regards extent of terri- tory , fertility of soil , and salubrity of climate . We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious lib- erty , than ...
... regards extent of terri- tory , fertility of soil , and salubrity of climate . We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious lib- erty , than ...
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