The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1832-1843Lamb Publishing Company, 1905 |
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... tell stories with a point and to argue by parables ; he read Robinson Crusoe , The Pilgrim's Progress , a short history of the United States , and Weems's Life of Washington . To the town constable's he went to read the Revised Statutes ...
... tell stories with a point and to argue by parables ; he read Robinson Crusoe , The Pilgrim's Progress , a short history of the United States , and Weems's Life of Washington . To the town constable's he went to read the Revised Statutes ...
Page 8
... telling funny stories , mimicking the itinerant preachers who had happened to pass by , and making his mark at wrestling matches , too ; for at the age of seventeen he had attained his full height , six feet four inches in his stockings ...
... telling funny stories , mimicking the itinerant preachers who had happened to pass by , and making his mark at wrestling matches , too ; for at the age of seventeen he had attained his full height , six feet four inches in his stockings ...
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... telling of two armies , in bat- tle array , standing still to see their two principal champions fight out the contested cause between the lines in single combat . Lincoln had then reached the full maturity of his powers . His equipment ...
... telling of two armies , in bat- tle array , standing still to see their two principal champions fight out the contested cause between the lines in single combat . Lincoln had then reached the full maturity of his powers . His equipment ...
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... telling funny stories in private con- versation , they disappeared more and more from his public discourse . He would still now and then point his argument with expressions of inimitable quaint- ness , and flash out rays of kindly humor ...
... telling funny stories in private con- versation , they disappeared more and more from his public discourse . He would still now and then point his argument with expressions of inimitable quaint- ness , and flash out rays of kindly humor ...
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... telling him to make his choice . On the contrary , God did tell him there was one tree of the fruit of which he should not 1 eat , upon pain of death . He did not 32 Abraham Lincoln.
... telling him to make his choice . On the contrary , God did tell him there was one tree of the fruit of which he should not 1 eat , upon pain of death . He did not 32 Abraham Lincoln.
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Page 110 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 110 - I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause, as cheerfully to one section as to another.
Page 96 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect 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...
Page 106 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 273 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 106 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 68 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 111 - I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that, to the best of my ability, I had ever tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country and Constitution all together.
Page 35 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 111 - I .did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...