Laura's attempt at trying to use an English idiom reveals that she is eager to try English phrases and expressions.
She says "There's no use trying to drink spilt milk," and even though her use of the idiom is incorrect (it should be - there's no use crying over spilt milk), she still really wants to try and better her English speaking skills, which is always quite commendable.
D- loving. The husband showed that he cared for his wife and even though he was saving up the money for a gun, he gave his wife the money instead because he loved her.
"I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery."
<span>Means that the oath he took when he(Abraham Lincoln) went into office and became president forbids him to do something that breaks the constitution no matter if his OWN morals say something else.
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"I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and I aver that, to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery."
<span>He publicly said this to show every one his views on slavery different ways and he states that to that day he's done no official act to defend his judgement and view on slavery.
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"I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law."
<span>He understood that his oath to preserve the constitutions to the best of his ability by any means necessary because the constitution was the main law.
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"Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?"
<span>He looks for an alternate way to find a way to preserve the constitution without losing the nation.</span>
I find all of the answers pretty neutral (that is, giving only facts, no judgements) except on sentence 3: this is because of the word "sharply".
It seems that the author of this sentence makes a judgement about the split: that they're very split, that their argument was very intense. It seems like a judgement to me more than the other sentences.
