Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 16P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 |
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Page 6561
... father , Thomas Lincoln , and his mother , Nancy Hanks , were both natives of Virginia . When Lincoln was eight years of age , his father moved into Indiana , buying a farm in what is now Spencer County . Schools were rare and the ...
... father , Thomas Lincoln , and his mother , Nancy Hanks , were both natives of Virginia . When Lincoln was eight years of age , his father moved into Indiana , buying a farm in what is now Spencer County . Schools were rare and the ...
Page 6583
... fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation , conceived in liberty , and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so ...
... fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation , conceived in liberty , and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation , or any nation so ...
Page 6593
... the position in which our fathers originally placed it , —restricting it from the new Territories where it had not gone , and legislating to cut off its source by the abrogation of the slave - trade REPLY TO STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 6593.
... the position in which our fathers originally placed it , —restricting it from the new Territories where it had not gone , and legislating to cut off its source by the abrogation of the slave - trade REPLY TO STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 6593.
Page 6595
... fathers placed it can have any tendency to set the northern and the southern States at war with one another or that it can have any tendency to make the people of Vermont raise sugar- cane because they raise it in Louisiana , or that it ...
... fathers placed it can have any tendency to set the northern and the southern States at war with one another or that it can have any tendency to make the people of Vermont raise sugar- cane because they raise it in Louisiana , or that it ...
Page 6612
... fathers , when they framed the government under which we live , understood this question just as well and even better than we do now . " I fully indorse this and I adopt it as a text for this dis- course . I so adopt it because it ...
... fathers , when they framed the government under which we live , understood this question just as well and even better than we do now . " I fully indorse this and I adopt it as a text for this dis- course . I so adopt it because it ...
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