Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal HamlinW. A. Townsend & Company, 1860 - 390 стор. |
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... fact , that if the time had not been wanting one could have made it a great deal better . This fact is of the greatest comfort to the author , and not of the slightest consequence to anybody else . It is perfectly reasonable , therefore ...
... fact , that if the time had not been wanting one could have made it a great deal better . This fact is of the greatest comfort to the author , and not of the slightest consequence to anybody else . It is perfectly reasonable , therefore ...
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... fact of great - grandparents . We do not find it profitable to travel far into the past in search of Abraham Lincoln's ancestry . There is a dim possibility that he is of the stock of the New Eng- land Lincolns , of Plymouth colony ...
... fact of great - grandparents . We do not find it profitable to travel far into the past in search of Abraham Lincoln's ancestry . There is a dim possibility that he is of the stock of the New Eng- land Lincolns , of Plymouth colony ...
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... fact of original capacity , and untiring industry . He was conscious of his own powers ; he was a logician , and could not resist logical conclusions . If he studied , why might not he achieve ? And Kirkham fell before him . One ...
... fact of original capacity , and untiring industry . He was conscious of his own powers ; he was a logician , and could not resist logical conclusions . If he studied , why might not he achieve ? And Kirkham fell before him . One ...
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... fact that Lincoln has done these things , and has risen above them by his own force , confers a dignity upon them ; and the rustic boy , who is to be President in 1900 , may well be consoled and encour- aged in his labors when he ...
... fact that Lincoln has done these things , and has risen above them by his own force , confers a dignity upon them ; and the rustic boy , who is to be President in 1900 , may well be consoled and encour- aged in his labors when he ...
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... fact that Mr. Lincoln is a kind - hearted , amiable , good - natured gentleman , with whom no man has a right to pick a quarrel , even if he wanted one . He is a wor- thy gentleman . I have known him for twenty - five years , and there ...
... fact that Mr. Lincoln is a kind - hearted , amiable , good - natured gentleman , with whom no man has a right to pick a quarrel , even if he wanted one . He is a wor- thy gentleman . I have known him for twenty - five years , and there ...
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Сторінка 347 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Сторінка 100 - 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...
Сторінка 239 - 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?
Сторінка 243 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Сторінка 216 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Сторінка 217 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Сторінка 181 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Сторінка 202 - But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Сторінка 189 - It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative.
Сторінка 194 - ... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine...