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... becomes a Candidate for the Legislature - He is Defeated - Purchases a Store , but fails in Business - Is appointed Postmaster - Anecdote illustrating his Honesty - He becomes a Surveyor , CHAPTER V. 48 CHARACTER OF MR . LINCOLN ON ...
... becomes a Candidate for the Legislature - He is Defeated - Purchases a Store , but fails in Business - Is appointed Postmaster - Anecdote illustrating his Honesty - He becomes a Surveyor , CHAPTER V. 48 CHARACTER OF MR . LINCOLN ON ...
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... become very uncomfortable , they are quite likely to try emigration as a remedy . A good deal of what is called " the pioneer spirit " is simply a spirit of shift- less discontent . Possibly there was something of this spirit in Thomas ...
... become very uncomfortable , they are quite likely to try emigration as a remedy . A good deal of what is called " the pioneer spirit " is simply a spirit of shift- less discontent . Possibly there was something of this spirit in Thomas ...
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... become populous and powerful , was already the home of an institution which branded labor with disgrace , and made the position of the poor whites a hopeless one . He could see nothing in the future , for himself or his boy , but labor ...
... become populous and powerful , was already the home of an institution which branded labor with disgrace , and made the position of the poor whites a hopeless one . He could see nothing in the future , for himself or his boy , but labor ...
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... become a very tall and pow- erful young man . He had reached the remarkable height of six feet and four inches , a length of trunk and limb remarkable even among the tall race of pioneers to which he belonged . The incidents of a trip ...
... become a very tall and pow- erful young man . He had reached the remarkable height of six feet and four inches , a length of trunk and limb remarkable even among the tall race of pioneers to which he belonged . The incidents of a trip ...
Page 36
... as the soil afforded . His individuality was developed and nurtured by the process . He had become a man after God's pattern , and not a machine after man's pattern ; he was a child of Nature 36 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... as the soil afforded . His individuality was developed and nurtured by the process . He had become a man after God's pattern , and not a machine after man's pattern ; he was a child of Nature 36 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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