Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseLommis National Library Association, 1888 - 842 pages Written in 1864 by a political contemporary, this is a work of nineteenth-century American biographic literature. It contains Lincoln's most masterful speeches and writings, along with a contemporary history of the Civil War. |
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... Labor - Young Lincoln at His Work - His Schools and Schoolmasters - Self - Education - A Characteristic Incident - Acquaintance with River Life - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman - Death of His Mother - His Father's Second ...
... Labor - Young Lincoln at His Work - His Schools and Schoolmasters - Self - Education - A Characteristic Incident - Acquaintance with River Life - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman - Death of His Mother - His Father's Second ...
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... labor of preparing the heavily - timbered lands of Shenandoah for cultivation , the wild delights of hunting the then abundant game of the woods , and the exciting hazards of an uncertain warfare with savage enemies , had been almost ...
... labor of preparing the heavily - timbered lands of Shenandoah for cultivation , the wild delights of hunting the then abundant game of the woods , and the exciting hazards of an uncertain warfare with savage enemies , had been almost ...
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... his son beginning to be of essential service in manual labor , to seek a new place of abode , far to the west , beyond the Ohio river . * Bryant . CHAPTER II . MR . LINCOLN'S EARLY LIFE IN INDIANA 20 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... his son beginning to be of essential service in manual labor , to seek a new place of abode , far to the west , beyond the Ohio river . * Bryant . CHAPTER II . MR . LINCOLN'S EARLY LIFE IN INDIANA 20 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... Labor . - Young Lincoln at His Work.- His Schools and Schoolmasters . - Self - Education . - A Characteristic Incident . - Acquaintance with River Life . - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman . - Death of His Mother . - His ...
... Labor . - Young Lincoln at His Work.- His Schools and Schoolmasters . - Self - Education . - A Characteristic Incident . - Acquaintance with River Life . - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman . - Death of His Mother . - His ...
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... labor to the exclusion of slavery . This was , beyond question , a powerful inducement with many , yet , by no means the only one ; and , with some , it did not exist at all . In the earlier days of Kentucky , the proportion of slaves ...
... labor to the exclusion of slavery . This was , beyond question , a powerful inducement with many , yet , by no means the only one ; and , with some , it did not exist at all . In the earlier days of Kentucky , the proportion of slaves ...
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LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Joseph H. (Joseph Hartwell) 18 Barrett,Making of America Project No preview available - 2016 |
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