Abraham Lincoln: The Man of the PeopleMacmillian Company, 1901 - 433 pages |
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... tell the sto- ries picked up in a vagrant life , and to make him- self respected in a fight when his pacific soul was stirred . He was a Jackson Democrat who couldn't write his name , until his first wife taught him to scrawl it , the ...
... tell the sto- ries picked up in a vagrant life , and to make him- self respected in a fight when his pacific soul was stirred . He was a Jackson Democrat who couldn't write his name , until his first wife taught him to scrawl it , the ...
Page 12
... to hear a preacher . All this was intellectual and unprofitable , and Tom didn't like it . Says the relative Dennis Hanks : " I never could tell whether Abe loved his father very well or not . I don't think 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... to hear a preacher . All this was intellectual and unprofitable , and Tom didn't like it . Says the relative Dennis Hanks : " I never could tell whether Abe loved his father very well or not . I don't think 12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... telling , of Lincoln's indignation at seeing a slave auction at which a vigorous and comely mulatto girl who was being sold had her flesh pinched and was made to trot up and down to show her soundness , like a horse . In June the four ...
... telling , of Lincoln's indignation at seeing a slave auction at which a vigorous and comely mulatto girl who was being sold had her flesh pinched and was made to trot up and down to show her soundness , like a horse . In June the four ...
Page 48
... tell of the gloom of pioneer life , the desert spaces , the malaria , the loneliness , the absence of opportunity for a man who feels his powers ready within him . Whatever the causes , almost all who ever knew Lincoln well believed ...
... tell of the gloom of pioneer life , the desert spaces , the malaria , the loneliness , the absence of opportunity for a man who feels his powers ready within him . Whatever the causes , almost all who ever knew Lincoln well believed ...
Page 51
... Tell me , ye winged winds That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ? Some lone and pleasant vale , Some valley in the west , Where , free from toil and pain , The weary soul may rest ? The loud ...
... Tell me , ye winged winds That round my pathway roar , Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ? Some lone and pleasant vale , Some valley in the west , Where , free from toil and pain , The weary soul may rest ? The loud ...
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