Abraham Lincoln: The Man of the PeopleMacmillan, 1903 - 433 páginas |
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... whole nature grew in our soil , and when he was asked to rule a distracted country , native strength , honesty , and shrewdness had as their foundation an inti- macy with the kinds of human nature which formed the B I ORIGIN AND CHILDHOOD.
... whole nature grew in our soil , and when he was asked to rule a distracted country , native strength , honesty , and shrewdness had as their foundation an inti- macy with the kinds of human nature which formed the B I ORIGIN AND CHILDHOOD.
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... whole year , while Tom and Abe cleared a little patch for corn and Tom built a permanent dwelling . Into this mansion he moved before it was half completed , and found it so attractive that he left it for a year or two without doors ...
... whole year , while Tom and Abe cleared a little patch for corn and Tom built a permanent dwelling . Into this mansion he moved before it was half completed , and found it so attractive that he left it for a year or two without doors ...
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... whole boyhood and youth there was plenty to lead his mind , at least occasionally , onto the topic . The talkative youth presented a pictorial ap- pearance , dressed in coat , trousers , and moccasins of tanned deer hide ; for although ...
... whole boyhood and youth there was plenty to lead his mind , at least occasionally , onto the topic . The talkative youth presented a pictorial ap- pearance , dressed in coat , trousers , and moccasins of tanned deer hide ; for although ...
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... whole collection , Lincoln alone possessed the sacred fire that drove him , not only to every book , and with the rest of the men , gun on arm , to the itinerant preacher and his cabin church ; but alone to the court - house , held in a ...
... whole collection , Lincoln alone possessed the sacred fire that drove him , not only to every book , and with the rest of the men , gun on arm , to the itinerant preacher and his cabin church ; but alone to the court - house , held in a ...
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... whole truth , the first tale we have of the trait which afterward made him Honest Abe . A less elevated instance of his desire to help others is connected with Crawford's school . There is conflicting evidence about his orthographical ...
... whole truth , the first tale we have of the trait which afterward made him Honest Abe . A less elevated instance of his desire to help others is connected with Crawford's school . There is conflicting evidence about his orthographical ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 271 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Página 271 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 407 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 402 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 138 - 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?
Página 272 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 314 - ... and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Página 370 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Página 325 - When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below ; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks, and when you turned northward, east of the...
Página 131 - I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife.