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fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
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handwriting; penmanship.
3.
the art of writing beautifully:
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Lincoln wanted to make sure that the new state governments in the south would comply with his policy of emancipation of slaves and be lenient towards them.
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- As soon as the Civil War came to an end, President Lincoln took up the task of the reunification of the nation.
- For the states in the south, he prepared the ten percent plan and appealed to the people of the south to take oath of allegiance to the United States, of the emancipation of slaves, and of leniency towards them.
- Lincoln assured them that once the oath is taken, he would permit each state to frame new Constitutions of their own.
They viewed reaching an advanced age as a significant accomplishment.
Life expectancy in early colonial Virginia was less than 25 years -- including the reality of infant mortality and a high number of deaths in childhood. In the colonial beginnings of New England, around 40% of children died before reaching adult age. Life in the colonies was very hard for the early colonists.
Answer: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."
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