Abraham LincolnC. Scribner's Sons, 1917 - 266 pages |
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... neighborhood and that larger com- munity , our country . Such a hero and leader , who continues to live in the ideals and institutions of his native land , is one of its richest possessions ; and it is especially fitting , in days when ...
... neighborhood and that larger com- munity , our country . Such a hero and leader , who continues to live in the ideals and institutions of his native land , is one of its richest possessions ; and it is especially fitting , in days when ...
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... neighbors good - natured and obliging ; and his love of fun and good stories , traits he handed on , made him unusually good company . These qualities , even though he lacked thrift and am- bition , won him the affection of the devoted ...
... neighbors good - natured and obliging ; and his love of fun and good stories , traits he handed on , made him unusually good company . These qualities , even though he lacked thrift and am- bition , won him the affection of the devoted ...
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... neighbors were not close enough to see much of each other . He must have played much alone in the forest and about the streams , making friends with the world of out - of - doors . He was seldom known to speak of those early years even ...
... neighbors were not close enough to see much of each other . He must have played much alone in the forest and about the streams , making friends with the world of out - of - doors . He was seldom known to speak of those early years even ...
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... neighbors to do farm - work , or what- ever the neighbor wished to have him do . For this the father received twenty - five cents a day . At times Abraham and Sarah were both hired out to the more thrifty farmers in the community ...
... neighbors to do farm - work , or what- ever the neighbor wished to have him do . For this the father received twenty - five cents a day . At times Abraham and Sarah were both hired out to the more thrifty farmers in the community ...
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... neighbors , recognizing his strong desire to improve himself , were eager to help him . Mentor Graham gave him instruction , the Greenes lent him books , and the cooper in New Salem village allowed him to burn shavings in his shop at ...
... neighbors , recognizing his strong desire to improve himself , were eager to help him . Mentor Graham gave him instruction , the Greenes lent him books , and the cooper in New Salem village allowed him to burn shavings in his shop at ...
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Page 219 - 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 141 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 95 - 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...
Page 246 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth...
Page 181 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 193 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those Generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 179 - I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me...
Page 149 - Either the President must do it himself, and be all the while active in it, or " Devolve it on some member of his cabinet. Once adopted, debates on it must end, and all agree and abide " — I remark that if this must be done, I must do it. When a general line of policy is adopted, I apprehend there is no danger of its being changed without good reason, or continuing to be a subject of unnecessary debate; still, upon points arising in its progress I wish, and suppose I am entitled to have, the advice...
Page 250 - I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad.
Page 171 - I feel too earnestly to-night. I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. " If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you, or to any other persons in Washington. " You have done your best to sacrifice this army.