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... stories of the heroism of his early life are parables in cottage homes on both sides of the Atlantic . In the same way every one is familiar with the great drama of his career as President , with its terrible scenes of war and final ...
... stories of the heroism of his early life are parables in cottage homes on both sides of the Atlantic . In the same way every one is familiar with the great drama of his career as President , with its terrible scenes of war and final ...
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... story of his political career that they may please the groundlings who have a high - souled hatred of the lawyer politician . Although we may not go all the way with an American writer who says , " if Abraham Lincoln had not com- menced ...
... story of his political career that they may please the groundlings who have a high - souled hatred of the lawyer politician . Although we may not go all the way with an American writer who says , " if Abraham Lincoln had not com- menced ...
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... story of a great hero , and biographers made pil- grimages to hear the old man tell it . In 1833 a disastrous partnership in a small store came to an untimely end , leaving Lincoln with a legacy of debt which he honourably paid off in ...
... story of a great hero , and biographers made pil- grimages to hear the old man tell it . In 1833 a disastrous partnership in a small store came to an untimely end , leaving Lincoln with a legacy of debt which he honourably paid off in ...
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... story of his coming to Springfield is told by his friend Joshua Speed , a prosperous young merchant of the town , to whom he went on his first arrival . " He had ridden into the town , " writes Speed , on a borrowed horse and engaged ...
... story of his coming to Springfield is told by his friend Joshua Speed , a prosperous young merchant of the town , to whom he went on his first arrival . " He had ridden into the town , " writes Speed , on a borrowed horse and engaged ...
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... story of a foreman who returned to a learned judge to say his jury could not agree their verdict , and on being asked what the trouble was , replied : " Judge , this ' ere is the diffi- culty . The jury want to know if that thar what ...
... story of a foreman who returned to a learned judge to say his jury could not agree their verdict , and on being asked what the trouble was , replied : " Judge , this ' ere is the diffi- culty . The jury want to know if that thar what ...
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Page 256 - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Page 77 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 211 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in Heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 19 - Herndon reports him as advising a client, "we can doubtless gain your case for you ; we can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads ; we can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you six hundred dollars to which you seem to have a legal claim, but which rightfully belongs, it appears to me, as much to the woman and her children as it does to you. You must remember, however, that some things legally right are not morally right.
Page 154 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Page 114 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture.
Page 127 - The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!" "No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.
Page 153 - Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Page 88 - I can count them bone by bone, The leaves are open and spread But I see the teeth of the land, And hands like a dead man's hand, And the eyes of a dead man's head. There's nothing but cinders and sand, The rat and the mouse have...
Page 36 - Justice directed the jury, that unless the defendant did produce the jewel, and show it not to be of the finest water, they should presume the strongest against him, and make the value of the best jewels the measure of their damages : which they accordingly did.