Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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... rule for the law- yer , as for the man of every other calling , is diligence . Leave nothing for to - morrow which can be done to - day . Never let your correspondence fall behind . Whatever piece of business you have in hand , before ...
... rule for the law- yer , as for the man of every other calling , is diligence . Leave nothing for to - morrow which can be done to - day . Never let your correspondence fall behind . Whatever piece of business you have in hand , before ...
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... rule , never take your whole fee in advance , nor any more than a small retainer . When fully paid beforehand , you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case as if something was still in prospect for 12.
... rule , never take your whole fee in advance , nor any more than a small retainer . When fully paid beforehand , you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case as if something was still in prospect for 12.
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... rule you are to be slave to the first man you meet with a fairer skin than your own . You do not mean color ex- actly ? You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks , and therefore have the right to enslave them ...
... rule you are to be slave to the first man you meet with a fairer skin than your own . You do not mean color ex- actly ? You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks , and therefore have the right to enslave them ...
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... rule you are to be slave to the first man you meet with an intellect superior to your own . But , say you , it is a question of interest , and if you make it your interest you have the right to enslave another . Very well . And if he ...
... rule you are to be slave to the first man you meet with an intellect superior to your own . But , say you , it is a question of interest , and if you make it your interest you have the right to enslave another . Very well . And if he ...
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... rule . If I were in Congress , and a vote should come up on a question whe- ther slavery should be pro- hibited in a new Territory , in spite of the Dred Scott deci- sion , I would vote that it should . he That is what I would do ...
... rule . If I were in Congress , and a vote should come up on a question whe- ther slavery should be pro- hibited in a new Territory , in spite of the Dred Scott deci- sion , I would vote that it should . he That is what I would do ...
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