The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 132
... LINCOLN , " First Inaugural , " March 4 , 1861 Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ? ABRAHAM LINCOLN , Ibid . This country , with its ...
... LINCOLN , " First Inaugural , " March 4 , 1861 Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ? Is there any better or equal hope in the world ? ABRAHAM LINCOLN , Ibid . This country , with its ...
Page 450
... Lincoln's death . I was home in Brooklyn on both occasions . The day of the murder we heard the news very early in the morning . Mother prepared breakfast - and other meals afterward - as usual ; but not a mouthful was eaten all day by ...
... Lincoln's death . I was home in Brooklyn on both occasions . The day of the murder we heard the news very early in the morning . Mother prepared breakfast - and other meals afterward - as usual ; but not a mouthful was eaten all day by ...
Page 451
... Lincoln , grown up in a different milieu , becoming a distinguished writer . But actually the poetry of Lincoln has not all been put into his writings . It was acted out in his life . With nothing of the deliberate histrionics of the ...
... Lincoln , grown up in a different milieu , becoming a distinguished writer . But actually the poetry of Lincoln has not all been put into his writings . It was acted out in his life . With nothing of the deliberate histrionics of the ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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