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... minds of their children with religious truth . The mother , though not a ready writer , could read . Books were scarce , but occasion- ally an estray was caught and eagerly devoured . Abraham and his sister often sat at her feet to hear ...
... minds of their children with religious truth . The mother , though not a ready writer , could read . Books were scarce , but occasion- ally an estray was caught and eagerly devoured . Abraham and his sister often sat at her feet to hear ...
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... mind of the boy — an impres- sion that probably never wore away during all the eventful years that followed . His delicate mother bent to the dust under the burden of life which circumstances had imposed upon her . A quick consumption ...
... mind of the boy — an impres- sion that probably never wore away during all the eventful years that followed . His delicate mother bent to the dust under the burden of life which circumstances had imposed upon her . A quick consumption ...
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... mind . The Holy Bible , Esop and John Bun- yan - could three better books have been chosen for him from the richest library ? For those who have witnessed the dissipating effects of many books upon the minds of modern children it is not ...
... mind . The Holy Bible , Esop and John Bun- yan - could three better books have been chosen for him from the richest library ? For those who have witnessed the dissipating effects of many books upon the minds of modern children it is not ...
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... mind , seemed to open a way to success in another quarter . A man named Reuben Radford , the keeper of a small store in the village of New Salem , had somehow incurred the dis- pleasure of the Clary's Grove Boys , who had exercised ...
... mind , seemed to open a way to success in another quarter . A man named Reuben Radford , the keeper of a small store in the village of New Salem , had somehow incurred the dis- pleasure of the Clary's Grove Boys , who had exercised ...
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... mind and character , and personal struggles . Before entering upon that period of his life through which we are to trace a double current , a private and a public one , it will be proper to inquire what kind of a man he had become . No ...
... mind and character , and personal struggles . Before entering upon that period of his life through which we are to trace a double current , a private and a public one , it will be proper to inquire what kind of a man he had become . No ...
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