Abraham Lincoln
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Moore, Charles Halsey) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Lecture Dr. Johnson commences his history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by what is declared by critics to be without exception the most complete sentence in the English language as follows: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." It is not, my friends, to the excellencies of Dr. Johnson´s literary style, nor to the history of his Prince to which I wish to call your attention, but to the story of a greater than a prince, the story of Abraham Lincoln. One of the most interesting, fascinating and I almost said astonishing stories of human life is condensed in the words, a life of Abraham Lincoln. The sound of his name brings back to us the days of early Illinois; and the then almost unknown great West; the struggles of freedom against slavery, and slave laws; the boom of the cannon at Sumpter; the clanking of shackles as they fell from the limbs of millions of human beings freed by a stroke of his pen. The trumpet of victory at Appomattox; the shot of the assassin Booth, and the wails of a mourning nation more than a quarter of a century ago at the death bed of this Abraham Lincoln. His influence Julian says is "wider than tho Republic; a unique man without ancestor or successor." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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