 | John Carroll Power - Anagamon County (Ill.) - 1876 - 820 pages
...neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. Therewas absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much;...could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, hut that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much....raised to farm work, which I continued till I was 22. At 21 I came to Illinois, and passed the first year in Macon county. Then I got to New Salem, at... | |
 | William C. Roberts - Orators - 1884 - 264 pages
...a wild region, with few educational advantages. He once wrote of himself, that on coming of age ' ' somehow I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all." All that he afterward acquired he "picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity." Farm... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 482 pages
...neighborhood, he was looked upon aa a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when i came of age i did not know much....store of education, i have picked up from time to t lme under the pressure of necessity. i was raised to farm work, which i continned till i was twenty-two.... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Illustrated books - 1885 - 476 pages
...neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when i came of age i did not know much. Still somehow. 1 could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, bnt that was all. i have not heen to school since.... | |
 | Phillips Exeter Academy - 1887 - 246 pages
...Lincoln said of himself : " When I came of age I did not know much. The little advance that I now (1859) have upon this store of education I have picked up...from time to time under the pressure of necessity." Without the aid of masters and professors the disadvantages under which one labors in getting an education... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...he was looked upon as a wizard. There *was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for an education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much; still, somehow, I could read and write and cipher to the rule of three, and that was all. I have not been to school since. The little... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...age, I did not know much; still, somehow, I could read and write and cipher to the rule of three, and that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I have now made upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time, under the pressure... | |
 | MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 pages
...supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. * * * Of course, when I came of age I did not know much....and cipher to the rule of three. But that was all. * * * The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to time... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much....time under the pressure of necessity. I was raised to farm-work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, and passed the... | |
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There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three, but that was all. 
