The Life and Administration of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., with a General View of His Policy as President of the United States, Embracing the Leading Events of the War. Also the European Press on His DeathReprinted, W. Abbatt, 1933 |
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... proved himself , and soon was master of his teacher's store of arithme- tic . Mr. Lincoln has remarked that the aggregate of his schooling did not amount to one year . He never attended a college or academy as a student , and never ...
... proved himself , and soon was master of his teacher's store of arithme- tic . Mr. Lincoln has remarked that the aggregate of his schooling did not amount to one year . He never attended a college or academy as a student , and never ...
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... proved with kindness ; and though he may have occasionally been a little sarcastic in his replies to the commander's petulant complaints , those replies always were in a familiar suggestive vein , and usually in the form of private ...
... proved with kindness ; and though he may have occasionally been a little sarcastic in his replies to the commander's petulant complaints , those replies always were in a familiar suggestive vein , and usually in the form of private ...
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... proved , that in those terrible conflicts General Grant completely broke the very spinal column of the Confederacy . It was in the summer campaign of 1864 that General Lee put forth his 19 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 19.
... proved , that in those terrible conflicts General Grant completely broke the very spinal column of the Confederacy . It was in the summer campaign of 1864 that General Lee put forth his 19 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 19.
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