Abraham Lincoln's law partners and students . y honorable and sinless motion of his hand couldhave ordained it, he would have dismissed himself from life, and ceased to be alivingpartaker in tho scenes about him. Even then—for happy as he was, hedreaded, in prophetic fear, the chances which beset our mortal path. Theweight of mortality was heavy upon the young mans spirit. Thinking over all the way he had passed, oh I who could answer that he,with the thronging company of busy passions and desires, could ever hope toreach an old age and never go astray ? Oh, blessed is he (he thought) whocan l
Abraham Lincoln's law partners and students . y honorable and sinless motion of his hand couldhave ordained it, he would have dismissed himself from life, and ceased to be alivingpartaker in tho scenes about him. Even then—for happy as he was, hedreaded, in prophetic fear, the chances which beset our mortal path. Theweight of mortality was heavy upon the young mans spirit. Thinking over all the way he had passed, oh I who could answer that he,with the thronging company of busy passions and desires, could ever hope toreach an old age and never go astray ? Oh, blessed is he (he thought) whocan lie down in death, can close his account with this world, having safelyescaped the temptations, the orimes, the trials, wbich make of good men even,in moments of weakness and misjudgment, the false speaker, the evil-doer,the slanderer, the coward, the hasty assailant, and (oh, dreadful, perchaneo I)the seeming guilty murderer himself. Strange thoughts for a prospeiouslovers night, but earth is not heaven. With the sweat of anguish on his T).
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