The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln: Containing Many Unpublished Documents and Unpublished Reminiscences of Lincoln's Early FriendsS. S. McClure, 1896 - 240 páginas |
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... SPRING FARM , WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN ROCK SPRING , ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN LINCOLN IN 1858. From a photograph taken at Beardstown , Illinois APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS LINCOLN AS ROAD SURVEYOR DEED OF SALE BY THOMAS ...
... SPRING FARM , WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN ROCK SPRING , ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN LINCOLN IN 1858. From a photograph taken at Beardstown , Illinois APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS LINCOLN AS ROAD SURVEYOR DEED OF SALE BY THOMAS ...
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... spring and summer of 1780. These entries , furnished us by Dr. Durrett , are as follows : MAY 29 , 1780 .- " Abraham Linkhorn enters four hundred acres of land on Treasury Warrant , laying on Floyd's Fork , about two miles above Tice's ...
... spring and summer of 1780. These entries , furnished us by Dr. Durrett , are as follows : MAY 29 , 1780 .- " Abraham Linkhorn enters four hundred acres of land on Treasury Warrant , laying on Floyd's Fork , about two miles above Tice's ...
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... 12 , 1806. The wedding was celebrated in the boisterous style of one hundred years ago , and was followed by an infare , given by the bride's guardian . VIEW OF ROCK SPRING FARM , WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS. 38 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... 12 , 1806. The wedding was celebrated in the boisterous style of one hundred years ago , and was followed by an infare , given by the bride's guardian . VIEW OF ROCK SPRING FARM , WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS. 38 ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... SPRING ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN . From a photograph taken in September , 1895 , for this biography . The spring is in a hollow at the foot of the gentle slope on the top of which the house stands . To this celebration came all ...
... SPRING ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN . From a photograph taken in September , 1895 , for this biography . The spring is in a hollow at the foot of the gentle slope on the top of which the house stands . To this celebration came all ...
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... Spring- field , and the chief places where Mr. Lincoln practised law are shown , as well as the points where the Lincoln and Douglas debates and the important political events of the campaign of 1860 took place . After an old photograph ...
... Spring- field , and the chief places where Mr. Lincoln practised law are shown , as well as the points where the Lincoln and Douglas debates and the important political events of the campaign of 1860 took place . After an old photograph ...
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The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell,J. McCan Davis Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 167 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 179 - My dear little Miss : Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received. I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughter. I have three sons — one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age. They, with their mother, constitute my whole family. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Página 129 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Página 69 - ... to the Rule of Three. If a straggler, supposed to understand Latin, happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all.
Página 70 - Life of Washington." I remember all the accounts there given of the battlefields and struggles for the liberties of the country, and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey.
Página 70 - May I be pardoned if, upon this occasion, I mention that away back in my childhood, the earliest days of my being able to read, I got hold of a small book, such a one as few of the younger members have ever seen, Weems
Página 138 - He says he has not since had any success in life which gave him so much satisfaction.
Página 70 - The crossing of the river; the contest with the Hessians; the great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory, more than any single revolutionary event ; and you all know, for you have all been boys, how these early impressions last longer than any others. I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that these men struggled for.
Página 40 - We had bearmeat ; . . . venison; wild turkey and ducks; eggs, wild and tame, so common that you could buy them at two bits a bushel ; maple sugar, swung on a string, to bite off for coffee or whiskey ; syrup in big gourds ; peach-and-honey ; a sheep that the two families barbecued whole over coals of wood burned in a pit, and covered with green boughs to keep the juice in; and a race for the whiskey bottle.
Página 138 - I could not for the life of me," said he, "remember the proper word of command for getting my company endwise, so that it could get through the gate; so as we came near I shouted: 'This company is dismissed for two minutes, when it will fall in again on the other side of the gate!