Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Τόμος 1Harcourt, Brace, 1926 |
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... towns in Illinois where Lincoln lived . Lincoln's last speech in Illinois , at Tolono , I first met in a file of the New York Herald . Old newspaper files in the Chicago Public Library , and various source materials in the Newberry ...
... towns in Illinois where Lincoln lived . Lincoln's last speech in Illinois , at Tolono , I first met in a file of the New York Herald . Old newspaper files in the Chicago Public Library , and various source materials in the Newberry ...
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... towns and villages then were paying a dollar to two dollars apiece for Indian scalps . Coming through safe to Kentucky , Abraham Lincoln located on the Green River , where he filed claims for more than 2,000 acres . He had been there ...
... towns and villages then were paying a dollar to two dollars apiece for Indian scalps . Coming through safe to Kentucky , Abraham Lincoln located on the Green River , where he filed claims for more than 2,000 acres . He had been there ...
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... town was still wilderness , with only a few farms and settlements . Kentucky had been admitted to the Union of states ; there were places in the state where civilization had dented the wilderness ; but it was still a country of uncut ...
... town was still wilderness , with only a few farms and settlements . Kentucky had been admitted to the Union of states ; there were places in the state where civilization had dented the wilderness ; but it was still a country of uncut ...
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... town needed his work . The time of the grand " raisin ' " of the courthouse in 1795 in the middle of August was remembered ; on that day forty strong men raised the frames and big logs into place while many women and children looked on ...
... town needed his work . The time of the grand " raisin ' " of the courthouse in 1795 in the middle of August was remembered ; on that day forty strong men raised the frames and big logs into place while many women and children looked on ...
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... Town Four South , Range Five West , to be paid for at $ 2.00 an acre . His Indiana homestead was now ready for a cabin and a family ; he walked back to the Knob Creek home in Kentucky and told the family he reckoned they'd all put in ...
... Town Four South , Range Five West , to be paid for at $ 2.00 an acre . His Indiana homestead was now ready for a cabin and a family ; he walked back to the Knob Creek home in Kentucky and told the family he reckoned they'd all put in ...
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Σελίδα 212 - At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Σελίδα 212 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States. They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power...
Σελίδα 372 - The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
Σελίδα 98 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Σελίδα 309 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Σελίδα 308 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. "The...
Σελίδα 98 - I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Σελίδα 371 - I will stake my life that if you had been in my place you would have voted just as I did. Would you have voted what you felt and knew to be a lie? I know you would not.
Σελίδα 149 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Σελίδα 89 - Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful killing of another, without malice either express or implied : which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat ; or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act.