The Pioneer Boy: And how He Became President, The Story of the Life of Abraham LincolnHodder and Stoughton, 1882 - 395 páginas |
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... believe that he has the fear of God before his eyes , and that he goes daily to a throne of grace , and asks wisdom , light , and knowledge , to enable him faithfully to discharge his duties . " The reader will find abundant ...
... believe that he has the fear of God before his eyes , and that he goes daily to a throne of grace , and asks wisdom , light , and knowledge , to enable him faithfully to discharge his duties . " The reader will find abundant ...
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... believe it or not ; " and he proceeded to spell it out , - " A - B - R - A - H - A - M L - I - N- C - O - L - N . " " Sure enough it is ; and you certainly did it , Abe ? " " Yes , sir ; and I will do it again , if you want to see me ...
... believe it or not ; " and he proceeded to spell it out , - " A - B - R - A - H - A - M L - I - N- C - O - L - N . " " Sure enough it is ; and you certainly did it , Abe ? " " Yes , sir ; and I will do it again , if you want to see me ...
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... believe that his home would boast , henceforth , a " bureau , clothes - chest , and real chairs . " His step- mother , too , won his heart at once . He thought she was just the woman to own such a bureau - the latter was a fitting ...
... believe that his home would boast , henceforth , a " bureau , clothes - chest , and real chairs . " His step- mother , too , won his heart at once . He thought she was just the woman to own such a bureau - the latter was a fitting ...
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... believe that reading the Life of Clay turned his thoughts or aims , perhaps unconsciously to himself , in the direction of a public career . It is cer- tain that he became a " Clay Whig , " and continued so until the question of liberty ...
... believe that reading the Life of Clay turned his thoughts or aims , perhaps unconsciously to himself , in the direction of a public career . It is cer- tain that he became a " Clay Whig , " and continued so until the question of liberty ...
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... believe you are used to boating . " " I know something about it , " Abraham replied . “ I should like to go to New Orleans . How far is it ? " " About eighteen hundred miles . I'm thinking of letting Allen take a trip there if you will ...
... believe you are used to boating . " " I know something about it , " Abraham replied . “ I should like to go to New Orleans . How far is it ? " " About eighteen hundred miles . I'm thinking of letting Allen take a trip there if you will ...
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Página 281 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 357 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 356 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Página 356 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 341 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Página 356 - State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.
Página 353 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever, free...
Página 364 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 314 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 352 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.