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... land in the then wilderness , and there erected a rude cabin , and commenced a life of toil and danger . Like the Pilgrim colonists of our own New England , he was accustomed to carry his gun with his axe , or other implement of labor ...
... land in the then wilderness , and there erected a rude cabin , and commenced a life of toil and danger . Like the Pilgrim colonists of our own New England , he was accustomed to carry his gun with his axe , or other implement of labor ...
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... . He saw the peculiar disadvan- tages of life for poor whites in a land where labor was degraded by slavery ; and he resolved that his children should be relieved from his own unsatisfactory lot of hopeless EARLY DAYS IN OBSCURITY . 11.
... . He saw the peculiar disadvan- tages of life for poor whites in a land where labor was degraded by slavery ; and he resolved that his children should be relieved from his own unsatisfactory lot of hopeless EARLY DAYS IN OBSCURITY . 11.
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... lands of the Kaskaskia River on their way , the men of the party were obliged to wade through water several feet deep . So the journey was not ac- LINCOLN'S FIRST HOUSE IN ILLINOIS . complished without some hinderances . On their ...
... lands of the Kaskaskia River on their way , the men of the party were obliged to wade through water several feet deep . So the journey was not ac- LINCOLN'S FIRST HOUSE IN ILLINOIS . complished without some hinderances . On their ...
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... land , this chapter may be fittingly closed : - ― " His youth was now spent , and at the age of twenty- one he left his father's house to begin the world for him- self . A small bundle , a laughing face , and an honest heart , these ...
... land , this chapter may be fittingly closed : - ― " His youth was now spent , and at the age of twenty- one he left his father's house to begin the world for him- self . A small bundle , a laughing face , and an honest heart , these ...
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... land , whose unrighteous bondage made our glorious banner too long a " flaunting lie , " and our " Independent days " ostentatious cheats . We have seen how his childhood and early manhood were the precursors of a useful maturity ; and ...
... land , whose unrighteous bondage made our glorious banner too long a " flaunting lie , " and our " Independent days " ostentatious cheats . We have seen how his childhood and early manhood were the precursors of a useful maturity ; and ...
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