Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's Stories: Including Early Life Stories, Professional Life Stories, White House Stories, War Stories, Miscellaneous StoriesRhodes & McClure, 1887 - 246 pages |
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... coln , struck and disabled him , and then Armstrong , by " legging " him , got him down . Most men would have been indignant , not to say furi- ously angry , under such foul treatment as this ; but if Lin- coln was either , he did not ...
... coln , struck and disabled him , and then Armstrong , by " legging " him , got him down . Most men would have been indignant , not to say furi- ously angry , under such foul treatment as this ; but if Lin- coln was either , he did not ...
Page 72
... coln at the Danville court , and in a walk we took together , seeing him make passes with a stick , such as are made in the broadsword exercise , I was induced to ask him why he had selected that weapon with which to fight Shields . He ...
... coln at the Danville court , and in a walk we took together , seeing him make passes with a stick , such as are made in the broadsword exercise , I was induced to ask him why he had selected that weapon with which to fight Shields . He ...
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... coln's skill in telling a story was not inferior to his appre- ciation of its points and his power of adapting them to the case in hand . It killed off the member from Wabash , who was very careful afterwards not to provoke any allusion ...
... coln's skill in telling a story was not inferior to his appre- ciation of its points and his power of adapting them to the case in hand . It killed off the member from Wabash , who was very careful afterwards not to provoke any allusion ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 11 |
An Incident of Lincolns Early Hardships | 18 |
The Long Nine Lincoln the Longest of All 424 | 25 |
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