Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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Página xxv
... nature - of that culture of the soul which had taken place in him in the midst of such harsh and unpromis- ing environment . Reference is made to the letters written to his young friend Joshua F. Speed , a member of the Ken- tucky ...
... nature - of that culture of the soul which had taken place in him in the midst of such harsh and unpromis- ing environment . Reference is made to the letters written to his young friend Joshua F. Speed , a member of the Ken- tucky ...
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... In Lincoln we have the able and practised attorney , with one side of his nature open to the eternal ; in Douglas the skilful lawyer , adroit and ambitious , not easily moved by the moral appeals which so quickly took hold xxxi.
... In Lincoln we have the able and practised attorney , with one side of his nature open to the eternal ; in Douglas the skilful lawyer , adroit and ambitious , not easily moved by the moral appeals which so quickly took hold xxxi.
Página xxxii
... nature were stirred . One of the most characteristic qualities of Lincoln's expression is its morality , its insight , its pro- phecy ; and in the now famous de- bate he reached well - nigh the fullness of his power to put great ...
... nature were stirred . One of the most characteristic qualities of Lincoln's expression is its morality , its insight , its pro- phecy ; and in the now famous de- bate he reached well - nigh the fullness of his power to put great ...
Página xxxv
... nature , his bur- dened spirit , were refreshed with glimpses - often storms - of mirth ! They say that to see Lincoln laugh was an amazing sight . The humor of which we learn so much from those who heard him tell his quaint and often ...
... nature , his bur- dened spirit , were refreshed with glimpses - often storms - of mirth ! They say that to see Lincoln laugh was an amazing sight . The humor of which we learn so much from those who heard him tell his quaint and often ...
Página xlii
... nature . There is in this last something that suggests music ; again we hear the strain of the Leitmotif . Strangely enough , in 1858 Lin- coln himself had used a figure not the same as , but suggestive of , this very one now given by ...
... nature . There is in this last something that suggests music ; again we hear the strain of the Leitmotif . Strangely enough , in 1858 Lin- coln himself had used a figure not the same as , but suggestive of , this very one now given by ...
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