The American IdealLongmans, Green and Company, 1936 - 275 pages |
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Page 66
... knew what no one else knew , that the future would bring something greater . - After his retirement from Congress , Lincoln , with a grow- ing family to feed , returned to his profession . For the next five or six years he was the ...
... knew what no one else knew , that the future would bring something greater . - After his retirement from Congress , Lincoln , with a grow- ing family to feed , returned to his profession . For the next five or six years he was the ...
Page 88
... knew that every day that the process of delay and condonation continued the seceding South was growing stronger and more irretrievably committed to a position that must bring either the horror of civil war or the end of the American ...
... knew that every day that the process of delay and condonation continued the seceding South was growing stronger and more irretrievably committed to a position that must bring either the horror of civil war or the end of the American ...
Page 142
... knew it to be such and accepted it as inevitable . The Presidents who suc- ceeded Lincoln were slight , unmeritable men who were elected merely because they were acceptable to the hard- faced ' bosses ' who ran the political parties ...
... knew it to be such and accepted it as inevitable . The Presidents who suc- ceeded Lincoln were slight , unmeritable men who were elected merely because they were acceptable to the hard- faced ' bosses ' who ran the political parties ...
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