Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... whole dis- tance , so that it appears to me , by removing the turf a sufficient width and damming up the old channel , the whole river in a short time would wash its way through , thereby curtailing the dis- tance and increasing the ...
... whole dis- tance , so that it appears to me , by removing the turf a sufficient width and damming up the old channel , the whole river in a short time would wash its way through , thereby curtailing the dis- tance and increasing the ...
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... whole length and breadth of the land , bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot or living thing , while on its bosom are riding , like demons on the wave of hell , the imps of that evil spirit , and fiendishly taunting all those ...
... whole length and breadth of the land , bidding fair to leave unscathed no green spot or living thing , while on its bosom are riding , like demons on the wave of hell , the imps of that evil spirit , and fiendishly taunting all those ...
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... whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods , and those chiefly the luxuries and not the necessaries of life . By this system , the man who contents himself to live upon the products of his own country pays nothing at all ...
... whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods , and those chiefly the luxuries and not the necessaries of life . By this system , the man who contents himself to live upon the products of his own country pays nothing at all ...
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... whole negro population to Africa , " etc. Lapse of time and the distinguished career of its author have only served to confirm the justice of the contemporary criticisms of this paper . As it appears in the " Collected Writings " of its ...
... whole negro population to Africa , " etc. Lapse of time and the distinguished career of its author have only served to confirm the justice of the contemporary criticisms of this paper . As it appears in the " Collected Writings " of its ...
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... whole Nebraska business . But I digress . In my opposition to the admission of Kansas , I shall have some com- pany , but we may be beaten . If we are , I shall not , on that account , attempt to dissolve the Union . I think it probable ...
... whole Nebraska business . But I digress . In my opposition to the admission of Kansas , I shall have some com- pany , but we may be beaten . If we are , I shall not , on that account , attempt to dissolve the Union . I think it probable ...
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Abraham Lincoln's Speeches Abraham Lincoln,L. E. (Lucius Eugene) 1824- Chittenden No preview available - 2016 |
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