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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... once tell a bevy of fashion able girls that he knew a very large woman who had a hus . band so small that in the night she often mistook him for the baby , and that upon one occasion she took him up and was singing to him a soothing ...
... once tell a bevy of fashion able girls that he knew a very large woman who had a hus . band so small that in the night she often mistook him for the baby , and that upon one occasion she took him up and was singing to him a soothing ...
Page 161
... once fascinated every little hearer and hushed the room into silence . IIis language was strikingly beautiful , and his tones musical with intense feeling . The little faces would droop into sad conviction as he uttered sentences of ...
... once fascinated every little hearer and hushed the room into silence . IIis language was strikingly beautiful , and his tones musical with intense feeling . The little faces would droop into sad conviction as he uttered sentences of ...
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... once told him that she thought he was " lacking in the smaller attentions , those little links which make up the great chain of woman's happiness , " because he dangled along by her side once when they were going up a hill , and allowed ...
... once told him that she thought he was " lacking in the smaller attentions , those little links which make up the great chain of woman's happiness , " because he dangled along by her side once when they were going up a hill , and allowed ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 11 |
An Incident of Lincolns Early Hardships | 18 |
The Long Nine Lincoln the Longest of All 424 | 25 |
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