Lincoln, the Man of the PeopleRand, McNally & Company, 1912 - 191 páginas |
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... turned up . An ear of corn was rubbed over the gritter until the grains had been rubbed down to the cob . Hominy mortar , gourds , and pail , used by pioneers in Lincoln's time Thus did the Lin- colns probably first obtain fresh “ corn ...
... turned up . An ear of corn was rubbed over the gritter until the grains had been rubbed down to the cob . Hominy mortar , gourds , and pail , used by pioneers in Lincoln's time Thus did the Lin- colns probably first obtain fresh “ corn ...
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... turned the crank until it was ground out . After the people grew in numbers , Abe went to a " horse mill , " where his horse furnished the power that turned the crank . When the corn was ground Abe once more mounted his horse , upon the ...
... turned the crank until it was ground out . After the people grew in numbers , Abe went to a " horse mill , " where his horse furnished the power that turned the crank . When the corn was ground Abe once more mounted his horse , upon the ...
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... turned his money over to his father . Now he meant to work for himself . The first work he must do was to get himself a pair of trousers , for his old ones were about worn out . He engaged to split four hundred rails for every yard of ...
... turned his money over to his father . Now he meant to work for himself . The first work he must do was to get himself a pair of trousers , for his old ones were about worn out . He engaged to split four hundred rails for every yard of ...
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... pay . He was hardly able to find money for his board , and to keep himself in decent clothes . A friend came to his rescue , paid for the horse , and turned him over to Lincoln . So it was that. The Man of the People 59.
... pay . He was hardly able to find money for his board , and to keep himself in decent clothes . A friend came to his rescue , paid for the horse , and turned him over to Lincoln . So it was that. The Man of the People 59.
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William Harrison Mace. turned him over to Lincoln . So it was that Lincoln found friends at every turn . Lincoln never forgot this act of friend- ship . Years afterward , when he was President and this old friend was living in California ...
William Harrison Mace. turned him over to Lincoln . So it was that Lincoln found friends at every turn . Lincoln never forgot this act of friend- ship . Years afterward , when he was President and this old friend was living in California ...
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Página 134 - My friends: No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Página 143 - I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it/ "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 87 - DEAR JOHNSTON :—Your request for eighty dollars I do not think it best to comply with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little you have said to me, "We can get along very well now"; but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now, this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether, since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's work in any one day. You do...
Página 102 - I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist among them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist among us, we should not instantly give it up.
Página 111 - They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
Página 138 - Now, my friends, can this country be saved on •that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Página 118 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 87 - You already know I desire that neither father nor mother shall be in want of any comfort, either in health or sickness, while they live ; and I feel sure you have not failed to use my name, if necessary, to procure a doctor, or anything else for father in his present sickness.
Página 134 - Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
Página 110 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy.