Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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... speak and write as well as he now does . He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Con- gress . He regrets his want of edu- cation and does what he can to supply the want . As a boy at home we are ...
... speak and write as well as he now does . He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Con- gress . He regrets his want of edu- cation and does what he can to supply the want . As a boy at home we are ...
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... speak of the " grotesque youth , habited in homespun tow , lying on his back , with his feet on the trunk of the tree , and poring over his book by the hour , grinding around with the shade as it shifted from north to east . " The youth ...
... speak of the " grotesque youth , habited in homespun tow , lying on his back , with his feet on the trunk of the tree , and poring over his book by the hour , grinding around with the shade as it shifted from north to east . " The youth ...
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... speaking Lincoln learned to do a most difficult thing - namely , to produce literature on his legs . It is difficult thus to produce litera- ture , because the words must flow with immediate precision . It is unusual for a politician to ...
... speaking Lincoln learned to do a most difficult thing - namely , to produce literature on his legs . It is difficult thus to produce litera- ture , because the words must flow with immediate precision . It is unusual for a politician to ...
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... 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 Seward . He was speaking of the moral sentiment , xlii.
... 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 Seward . He was speaking of the moral sentiment , xlii.
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Passages from His Speeches and Letters Abraham Lincoln. Seward . He was speaking of the moral sentiment , the sentiment of equality , in the Declaration of Independence . " That , " he said , " is the electric chord in that Dec- laration ...
Passages from His Speeches and Letters Abraham Lincoln. Seward . He was speaking of the moral sentiment , the sentiment of equality , in the Declaration of Independence . " That , " he said , " is the electric chord in that Dec- laration ...
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