LincolnNelson Doubleday, Incorporated, 1924 - 124 páginas |
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... sides of a proposition . He recognizes instinc- tively its defects of proportion , its incongruities . It is the great humorists who have drawn the truest pictures of human life , because their humor was a constant corrective against ...
... sides of a proposition . He recognizes instinc- tively its defects of proportion , its incongruities . It is the great humorists who have drawn the truest pictures of human life , because their humor was a constant corrective against ...
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... side of Lincoln's strange and fascinating indi- viduality . In compression and clear - cut force , in their humor and homely pathos , in their shrewd knowledge of character , these letters are among the most extraordinary ever written ...
... side of Lincoln's strange and fascinating indi- viduality . In compression and clear - cut force , in their humor and homely pathos , in their shrewd knowledge of character , these letters are among the most extraordinary ever written ...
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... side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ! Then you really believe that the principle which 44 our fathers who framed the government un- der which we live " thought so clearly right as to adopt it , and indorse it again and again , upon ...
... side . Do you accept the challenge ? No ! Then you really believe that the principle which 44 our fathers who framed the government un- der which we live " thought so clearly right as to adopt it , and indorse it again and again , upon ...
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... side or the other . If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them ; for a minor- ity of their own will secede from them when- ever a majority refuses to be ...
... side or the other . If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce , they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them ; for a minor- ity of their own will secede from them when- ever a majority refuses to be ...
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... sides , and no gain on either , you cease fighting , the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you . This country , with its institutions , belongs to the people who inhabit it . Whenever they shall grow ...
... sides , and no gain on either , you cease fighting , the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you . This country , with its institutions , belongs to the people who inhabit it . Whenever they shall grow ...
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Abraham Baldwin ABRAHAM LINCOLN affirmed amendments BERNARD BARTON better BLISS PERRY called Congress Constitution Court day's pleasuring dear death Declaration Douglas Dred Scott decision election Elia Emancipation Proclamation Executive Govern Executive Mansion express fathers who framed Federal authority Federal Government Federal Territories feel Fleet Street forbade the Federal force framed the government friends Government to control hope indorse labor LAMB Lamb's Lecompton constitution LINCOLN live look McClellan ment mind nation nature Nebraska Nebraska bill negro never oath old familiar faces passed person pleasure poor present President principle prohibit slavery proper division Quaker question Republican seemed Skiddaw slave slavery in Federal sort speak speech spirit stitution Street thee things thirty-nine thou thought tion true truth understanding Union United voted Washington Whigs whole WILLIAM WORDSWORTH words