The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln: Containing Many Unpublished Documents and Unpublished Reminiscences of Lincoln's Early FriendsS.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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... told more fully and consecutively , and in many points , both minor and important , we believe more exactly than ever before , bears out our belief that Abraham Lincoln inherited from his ancestry traits and qualities of mind which made ...
... told more fully and consecutively , and in many points , both minor and important , we believe more exactly than ever before , bears out our belief that Abraham Lincoln inherited from his ancestry traits and qualities of mind which made ...
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... told by Mr. J. L. Nall , a cousin of President Lincoln : " Uncle Thomas came back to Kentucky after the death of his first wife , Nancy Hanks , and proposed marriage to the widow Johnston ; she told him that she would be perfectly ...
... told by Mr. J. L. Nall , a cousin of President Lincoln : " Uncle Thomas came back to Kentucky after the death of his first wife , Nancy Hanks , and proposed marriage to the widow Johnston ; she told him that she would be perfectly ...
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... told the story , and asked how he might hope to make restitution . Mr. Crawford answered : Being as it is you , Abe , I won't be hard on you . Come over and shuck corn three days , and the book is yours . ' Shuck corn three days and ...
... told the story , and asked how he might hope to make restitution . Mr. Crawford answered : Being as it is you , Abe , I won't be hard on you . Come over and shuck corn three days , and the book is yours . ' Shuck corn three days and ...
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... told by one of the pioneers of Illinois of going many miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn that , when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn , and he had none to grind . This wait- ing with other men and ...
... told by one of the pioneers of Illinois of going many miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn that , when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn , and he had none to grind . This wait- ing with other men and ...
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... told to ' fix up , ' but declined , saying it would not be much of a likeness if he fixed up any . The old neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Lincoln in Illinois , upon seeing this picture , are apt to exclaim : There ! that's the best ...
... told to ' fix up , ' but declined , saying it would not be much of a likeness if he fixed up any . The old neighbors and acquaintances of Mr. Lincoln in Illinois , upon seeing this picture , are apt to exclaim : There ! that's the best ...
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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!