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Page 22 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States...
Page 263 - As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.
Page 132 - A Salutation to the Britains, to Call them from the Many Things, to the One Thing needful, for the Saving of their Souls ; Especially to the poor unlearned Tradesmen, Plowmen and Shepherds, those that are of a low Degree like my self.
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Page 112 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 5 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, James Grant Wilson |
| Editors | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Dec 21, 2006 |
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