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... speech of more than five minutes in length , but it , how- ever , contained all that ought to be said . It was said that he was a perfect walking encyclopedia of political knowledge . He lived and died a bachelor . Above and beyond all ...
... speech of more than five minutes in length , but it , how- ever , contained all that ought to be said . It was said that he was a perfect walking encyclopedia of political knowledge . He lived and died a bachelor . Above and beyond all ...
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... speech must have been a good one . I always thought you possessed more natural eloquence than many public speakers , yours is not of the loud , the empty or declamatory species . But of that gentle persuasive and unsophisti- cated ...
... speech must have been a good one . I always thought you possessed more natural eloquence than many public speakers , yours is not of the loud , the empty or declamatory species . But of that gentle persuasive and unsophisti- cated ...
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... speech beginning with the scriptural quota- tion " A house divided against itself cannot stand . " I was sitting on the steps of the rostrum of the Senate Chamber from which he spoke , and at the conclusion of his speech he sat down on ...
... speech beginning with the scriptural quota- tion " A house divided against itself cannot stand . " I was sitting on the steps of the rostrum of the Senate Chamber from which he spoke , and at the conclusion of his speech he sat down on ...
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... speech . The death of Augustus and Anson in their prime , led to other changes . Michael and Frederick removed to Adams County , Illinois . The former operated a farm at Liberty ; the latter , after a few years at Columbus , made his ...
... speech . The death of Augustus and Anson in their prime , led to other changes . Michael and Frederick removed to Adams County , Illinois . The former operated a farm at Liberty ; the latter , after a few years at Columbus , made his ...
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... speech in southern Illinois that he made in Freeport and Ottawa , and Lincoln never denied the accusation . When Sumpter was fired upon and Douglas exhorted his friends to stand by the Union , in the great wave of patriotism that surged ...
... speech in southern Illinois that he made in Freeport and Ottawa , and Lincoln never denied the accusation . When Sumpter was fired upon and Douglas exhorted his friends to stand by the Union , in the great wave of patriotism that surged ...
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Page 71 - For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
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