385 The Gettysburg Address
The History of Literature
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A New Birth of Freedom
The final sentence is a crescendo, 78 words, by far the longest sentence of these ten. It has the argument imbedded in it that i mentioned before, that the sol s will not have died in vain if we here highly resolve to have increased devotion to the cause to which they were devoted. Lincoln was a great logician. Remember that euclid he loved so much? He hated slavery but it wasn't just because he believed it was morally wrong. Here's what lincoln said about slavery in 18 54: "By this rule, you are to be slaved to the first man you meet with a fairer skin than your own" We can't erase
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