Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... look like a man who had ever owned much of land or of anything else . He was barefooted , and his patched homespun trowsers barely reached his ankles : but that was 1 more than could be said of Abe's . On CHAPTER I A CHAOTIC BEGINNING ...
... look like a man who had ever owned much of land or of anything else . He was barefooted , and his patched homespun trowsers barely reached his ankles : but that was 1 more than could be said of Abe's . On CHAPTER I A CHAOTIC BEGINNING ...
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... look at . Its hardening , narrowing , stunting conditions , creating barriers and fetters to be afterwards burst or broken , are worth a careful recognition and study . The end of Abe's tramp gave him a chance to compare with the place ...
... look at . Its hardening , narrowing , stunting conditions , creating barriers and fetters to be afterwards burst or broken , are worth a careful recognition and study . The end of Abe's tramp gave him a chance to compare with the place ...
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... look sharp , now , while I'm gone . " A chorus of Good - bys answered him , and then his wife stood on the bank , silently watching the drift of his awkward boat down the rapid current of the Rolling Fork . " Abe , " said his sister ...
... look sharp , now , while I'm gone . " A chorus of Good - bys answered him , and then his wife stood on the bank , silently watching the drift of his awkward boat down the rapid current of the Rolling Fork . " Abe , " said his sister ...
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... look like to ye ? " " Most like any other piece of woods ever I seen . " So it did ; and so did all the country north , and the country west of it , to the great prairies ; and so did the Northwest , all the vast region which has since ...
... look like to ye ? " " Most like any other piece of woods ever I seen . " So it did ; and so did all the country north , and the country west of it , to the great prairies ; and so did the Northwest , all the vast region which has since ...
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... look upon . It will serve well , too , as a place for a temporary camp , in the perfect weather of an American ... looks as if it mought go clean dry in summer , " remarked his wife . " Reckon not . Leastwise it'll do till summer comes ...
... look upon . It will serve well , too , as a place for a temporary camp , in the perfect weather of an American ... looks as if it mought go clean dry in summer , " remarked his wife . " Reckon not . Leastwise it'll do till summer comes ...
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Page 465 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 368 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Page 336 - ... 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...
Page 335 - 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...
Page 450 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by...
Page 171 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 493 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 369 - 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. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 224 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law...
Page 368 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...