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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation, by One Who Knew Him
With none of the factitious advantages which his predecessors had enjoyed, but with every conceivable drawback and embarrassment, as the world judges such things, Lincoln seemed to vault, as it were, at a single bound into the front rank of statesmen and rulers. For such an hour he proved the man of des tiny. 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.