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The same bad habit once prevailed more or less in England . On a pillar of the
old cathedral of Winchester a small plate of brass , with an engraved inscription ,
commemorates a martial hero born in “ Linkhorne sheire . ” * Samuel Lincoln , a ...
The same bad habit once prevailed more or less in England . On a pillar of the
old cathedral of Winchester a small plate of brass , with an engraved inscription ,
commemorates a martial hero born in “ Linkhorne sheire . ” * Samuel Lincoln , a ...
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As he grew up , he became more unsettled and less thrifty than his brothers .
Once , before he came to his majority , he went off to find his uncle Isaac in
Eastern Tennessee ; succeeded in his quest ; and worked for a year or more on
his uncle ...
As he grew up , he became more unsettled and less thrifty than his brothers .
Once , before he came to his majority , he went off to find his uncle Isaac in
Eastern Tennessee ; succeeded in his quest ; and worked for a year or more on
his uncle ...
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Slavery was now firmly established there , and the man of small means had less
chance of rising than of lapsing into the scorner class of “ poor whites . ” Thomas
Lincoln chose to live in a free State . That this was one of his motives for a ...
Slavery was now firmly established there , and the man of small means had less
chance of rising than of lapsing into the scorner class of “ poor whites . ” Thomas
Lincoln chose to live in a free State . That this was one of his motives for a ...
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... The whole country was little less than a forest at that time . For a small sum he
purchased a farm , with two unfinished log cabins , around which the wolves
nightly howled . Laying aside the weapons of war , he took himself to hard labor
with ...
... The whole country was little less than a forest at that time . For a small sum he
purchased a farm , with two unfinished log cabins , around which the wolves
nightly howled . Laying aside the weapons of war , he took himself to hard labor
with ...
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Imaginary conversations abound in its pages ; unheroic realities are freely
embellished , if not elevated , by incidental inventions ; and the famous hatchet
story is among the less ambitious original creations with a moral purpose . We
may also ...
Imaginary conversations abound in its pages ; unheroic realities are freely
embellished , if not elevated , by incidental inventions ; and the famous hatchet
story is among the less ambitious original creations with a moral purpose . We
may also ...
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| Title | Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1 Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Joseph Hartwell Barrett |
| Author | Joseph Hartwell Barrett |
| Publisher | Robert Clarke Company, 1904 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2008 |
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