{"id":231,"date":"2013-06-10T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/?p=231"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:43:22","slug":"notes-for-a-law-lecture-july-1-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/lincoln\/notes-for-a-law-lecture-july-1-1850\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes for a Law Lecture (July 1, 1850)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranking<\/strong><\/h3>\n

#21<\/span> on the list of 150 Most Teachable Lincoln Documents<\/em><\/p>\n

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Context. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The editors of Abraham Lincoln’s Collected Works have tentatively dated this fragment found in his papers as July 1, 1850. It appears to have been the draft of a speech that Lincoln must have given to younger members of the Illinois bar during the period in the early 1850s when he was most active as a circuit-riding attorney. In these notes, Lincoln offered a series of common sense observations about how to succeed in the legal profession (or any profession), but he punctuated his remarks by emphasizing the need for honesty, a standard he seemed especially determined to meet in his own career. (By Matthew Pinsker)<\/p>\n

“I am not an accomplished lawyer….”<\/a><\/p>\n

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