Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lincoln” in chapter 9, page 230 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
... he wrote to John D. Johnston.
There are ten words in that sentence and none of over four letters.
The contains but two hundred and seventy words, in ten sentences.
It is a flat failure, said Lincoln despondently; but Edward Everett, who had delivered the oration of that day, wrote to the President: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of
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