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Page 7
... give it symmetry and completeness . The humbler biographers of Mr. Lincoln , though they satisfy an immediate want , and gather much which would otherwise be forever lost , can hardly hope to be more than tributaries to that better and ...
... give it symmetry and completeness . The humbler biographers of Mr. Lincoln , though they satisfy an immediate want , and gather much which would otherwise be forever lost , can hardly hope to be more than tributaries to that better and ...
Page 23
... give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln , the mother , was evidently a woman out of place among those primitive surroundings . She was five feet , five inches high , a slender , pale ...
... give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln , the mother , was evidently a woman out of place among those primitive surroundings . She was five feet , five inches high , a slender , pale ...
Page 27
... give Abraham an education . At different periods , all of them brief , he attended the neigh- borhood schools that were opened to him . Andrew Crawford taught one of these , a Mr. Sweeney another , and Azel W. Dorsey another , the last ...
... give Abraham an education . At different periods , all of them brief , he attended the neigh- borhood schools that were opened to him . Andrew Crawford taught one of these , a Mr. Sweeney another , and Azel W. Dorsey another , the last ...
Page 28
... give a key to the kind of life which they lived there . The head and one side of the bedstead were formed by an angle of the cabin itself . The bed - post standing out into the room was a single crotch , cut from the forest . Laid upon ...
... give a key to the kind of life which they lived there . The head and one side of the bedstead were formed by an angle of the cabin itself . The bed - post standing out into the room was a single crotch , cut from the forest . Laid upon ...
Page 40
... give you something to eat , but we can't lodge you unless you can sleep on the same bed with the hired man . ' The man hesitated , and asked Where is he ? ' ' Well , ' said Mr. Brown , you can come and see him . ' So the man got down ...
... give you something to eat , but we can't lodge you unless you can sleep on the same bed with the hired man . ' The man hesitated , and asked Where is he ? ' ' Well , ' said Mr. Brown , you can come and see him . ' So the man got down ...
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