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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Mentor Association (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: (New York) : Mentor Association, Inc.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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itings; and fromthe end of his term in 1849 till his inauguration as president twelve yearslater he held no public ofhce, and Douglas was able later to twit himwith being a disappointed man. Yet all the while Abraham Lincoln was getting ready for his greattask, particularly by training himself in that marvelous power of expres-sion which makes him not only the greatest of American statesmen, butone of the half-dozen greatest American writers. This power of his is duefirst of all to the limpidity of his style, and to his use of Anglo-Saxonwords. Thus, in writing to Mary Owen in 1837, he said: I want in all cases to do right, and most particularly so in all caseswith women. I want at this particular time more than anything else todo right with you; and if I think it would be doing right, as I rather sus-pect it would, to let you alone, I would do it. In the early part of Lincolns life there were few good newspapers,no libraries outside of the little colleges, no cheap magazines. Lincoln
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LINCOLNS HOME AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS B R H M I N O N

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