Little MasterpiecesDoubleday & McClure, 1899 - 167 pages |
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Page viii
... President , when he found frank conversation impossible , he told a humorous story of more or less remote bearing upon the subject in hand . He kept inviolate his mental integrity . And without integrity of mind the a I 1 would - be ...
... President , when he found frank conversation impossible , he told a humorous story of more or less remote bearing upon the subject in hand . He kept inviolate his mental integrity . And without integrity of mind the a I 1 would - be ...
Page xi
... President . They range from the most informal addresses to the In- augurals . The Emancipation Proclamation is also included . The letters exhibit still another side of Lincoln's strange and fascinating indi- viduality . In compression ...
... President . They range from the most informal addresses to the In- augurals . The Emancipation Proclamation is also included . The letters exhibit still another side of Lincoln's strange and fascinating indi- viduality . In compression ...
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... understand the term oppose the war . " If to say " the war was unnecessarily and unconsti- 66 tutionally commenced by the President " be op- posing the 3 Editor's Introduction Speeches-Selected The Whigs and the Mexican.
... understand the term oppose the war . " If to say " the war was unnecessarily and unconsti- 66 tutionally commenced by the President " be op- posing the 3 Editor's Introduction Speeches-Selected The Whigs and the Mexican.
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Abraham Lincoln Bliss Perry. tutionally commenced by the President " be op- posing the war , then the Whigs have very gen- erally opposed it . Whenever they have spoken at all , they have said this ; and they have said it on what has ...
Abraham Lincoln Bliss Perry. tutionally commenced by the President " be op- posing the war , then the Whigs have very gen- erally opposed it . Whenever they have spoken at all , they have said this ; and they have said it on what has ...
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... President in beginning the war , and the cause of the country after it was begun , is a distinc- tion which you cannot perceive . To you the President and the country seem to be all one . You are interested to see no distinction between ...
... President in beginning the war , and the cause of the country after it was begun , is a distinc- tion which you cannot perceive . To you the President and the country seem to be all one . You are interested to see no distinction between ...
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