Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the ManGrosset & Dunlap, 1908 - 435 Seiten Abraham Lincoln: The Boy and the Man is not a critical study, but a simple story. Its aim is to present in dramatic pictures the struggles and achievements of a common man, in whom the race of common men is exalted; who solved great problems by the plain rules of common sense and wrought great deeds by the exercise of the common qualities of honesty and courage, patience, justice, and kindness. -- Foreword. |
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... carry it to market , and it seldom sold for more than ten cents a bushel . When made into whiskey , however , it was easily traded . It was almost as good as money , which was extremely scarce . After Thomas had built a raft , he loaded ...
... carry it to market , and it seldom sold for more than ten cents a bushel . When made into whiskey , however , it was easily traded . It was almost as good as money , which was extremely scarce . After Thomas had built a raft , he loaded ...
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... Pigeon Creek with his tall , curly - haired bride and her son and two daughters , a four - horse team was needed to carry her property , for she was rich in comparison with her groom . The forlorn , neglected little boy 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... Pigeon Creek with his tall , curly - haired bride and her son and two daughters , a four - horse team was needed to carry her property , for she was rich in comparison with her groom . The forlorn , neglected little boy 14 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... carried in his pocket , was only a corn - dodger , a cake made from coarse meal . He would study all day Sunday , for there was no church to attend , and every minute he could steal as he went about his Saturday chores he gave to his ...
... carried in his pocket , was only a corn - dodger , a cake made from coarse meal . He would study all day Sunday , for there was no church to attend , and every minute he could steal as he went about his Saturday chores he gave to his ...
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... carried it with him when he mounted to his loft , and there he lay in bed and read its pages until his bit of tallow had burned out . Then he poked the volume in a chink in the wall , where he could put his hands on it the minute he ...
... carried it with him when he mounted to his loft , and there he lay in bed and read its pages until his bit of tallow had burned out . Then he poked the volume in a chink in the wall , where he could put his hands on it the minute he ...
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... carried his office in his hat . -Sur- veyor . Crushed by a creditor , saved by a friend . — His gratitude . - - HOMELESS and unemployed , Lincoln was glad to respond to the Governor's call for volunteers , when Black Hawk , the old ...
... carried his office in his hat . -Sur- veyor . Crushed by a creditor , saved by a friend . — His gratitude . - - HOMELESS and unemployed , Lincoln was glad to respond to the Governor's call for volunteers , when Black Hawk , the old ...
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Seite 117 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Seite 364 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Seite 392 - O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port" is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Seite 392 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells: Rise up! for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning. Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck You've fallen cold and dead.
Seite 377 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Seite 308 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Seite 364 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Seite 258 - This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards.
Seite 376 - They knew that outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then...
Seite 167 - 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.