Abraham LincolnHarper & brothers, 1893 - 542 pages |
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... passed since the death of Abraham Lincoln . Much has been written concerning him , and doubtless much more will be written . My acquaintance with him began in his Springfield home the night following his nomination as candidate for the ...
... passed since the death of Abraham Lincoln . Much has been written concerning him , and doubtless much more will be written . My acquaintance with him began in his Springfield home the night following his nomination as candidate for the ...
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... passed , in which more than six hundred of the settlers were killed ; but the chief was dead , and his head was hanging on a gibbet in Plymouth . The captured Indians were sold as slaves to the Spaniards . 1676 . Mordecai Lincoln , the ...
... passed , in which more than six hundred of the settlers were killed ; but the chief was dead , and his head was hanging on a gibbet in Plymouth . The captured Indians were sold as slaves to the Spaniards . 1676 . Mordecai Lincoln , the ...
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... passed through Cumberland Gap and travelled many miles beyond , finding meadows waving with grass , the haunt of buffalo and deer . He and one of his companions were captured by the Indians , but made their escape . When they returned ...
... passed through Cumberland Gap and travelled many miles beyond , finding meadows waving with grass , the haunt of buffalo and deer . He and one of his companions were captured by the Indians , but made their escape . When they returned ...
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... passed in the Pigeon Creek camp , and the weariness of spirit on the part of one endowed as was the mother to adorn a palace . We are not to think that Thomas Lincoln was idle , nor that he was altogether shiftless . He was in pov- erty ...
... passed in the Pigeon Creek camp , and the weariness of spirit on the part of one endowed as was the mother to adorn a palace . We are not to think that Thomas Lincoln was idle , nor that he was altogether shiftless . He was in pov- erty ...
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... passed . Suddenly those who stood around him heard the rest of the sentence- " you old hussy . " In after - years he thus explained it : " Probably the muscles of my tongue had been set to speak the words when the animal's heels knocked ...
... passed . Suddenly those who stood around him heard the rest of the sentence- " you old hussy . " In after - years he thus explained it : " Probably the muscles of my tongue had been set to speak the words when the animal's heels knocked ...
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