Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin P. Thomas |
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Page 17
... Young Lincoln's spirits lifted as he watched the pageant go by - the stately steamboats trailing their plumes of smoke , the rafts gliding silently as the roustabouts kept them on course with their long sweeps , at night the twinkling ...
... Young Lincoln's spirits lifted as he watched the pageant go by - the stately steamboats trailing their plumes of smoke , the rafts gliding silently as the roustabouts kept them on course with their long sweeps , at night the twinkling ...
Page 27
... young men of his sterile background this would have been completely satisfying . Since Lincoln had left his family , how- ever , his latent ambition for self - advancement had begun to assert itself . Freed for the first time from the ...
... young men of his sterile background this would have been completely satisfying . Since Lincoln had left his family , how- ever , his latent ambition for self - advancement had begun to assert itself . Freed for the first time from the ...
Page 123
... young men , he reported , were dissatisfied " at the stubbornness and bad judgment of the old fossils in the party , " who were holding the young men back . This was a cruel thrust , but Lincoln replied with fatherly kindness that he ...
... young men , he reported , were dissatisfied " at the stubbornness and bad judgment of the old fossils in the party , " who were holding the young men back . This was a cruel thrust , but Lincoln replied with fatherly kindness that he ...
Contents
The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor | 3 |
Young Man on His Own | 23 |
His Love Affairs | 44 |
Copyright | |
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