Abraham LincolnJ. M. Dent & Company, 1907 - 379 pages |
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... mind , as long as food was plentiful . But , though there was game of all sorts about them , bear and venison , and wild turkey , there were too many busy days when the table boasted only its dull staple dish of potatoes or Indian ...
... mind , as long as food was plentiful . But , though there was game of all sorts about them , bear and venison , and wild turkey , there were too many busy days when the table boasted only its dull staple dish of potatoes or Indian ...
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... mind worked slowly , and though it never lost what it once acquired , each acquisition had to be won by strenuous effort . He was his own principal schoolmaster ; for , as he afterwards estimated , all the days of his irregular ...
... mind worked slowly , and though it never lost what it once acquired , each acquisition had to be won by strenuous effort . He was his own principal schoolmaster ; for , as he afterwards estimated , all the days of his irregular ...
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... recorded the names of David Turnham , the constable , and John Baldwin , the blacksmith . Judge Pitcher , who lived at Rockport , subsequently lent him law books . light glimmered through their chinks and awoke his mind anew 18 Beginnings.
... recorded the names of David Turnham , the constable , and John Baldwin , the blacksmith . Judge Pitcher , who lived at Rockport , subsequently lent him law books . light glimmered through their chinks and awoke his mind anew 18 Beginnings.
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Henry Bryan Binns. light glimmered through their chinks and awoke his mind anew to its insatiable hunger . He seems to have been well drilled in the Bible by his mother , and now , besides the books I have already mentioned , he devoured ...
Henry Bryan Binns. light glimmered through their chinks and awoke his mind anew to its insatiable hunger . He seems to have been well drilled in the Bible by his mother , and now , besides the books I have already mentioned , he devoured ...
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... mind so thoroughly absorbed . " Under the influence of a whimsical idler , one Jack Kelso , he began to study Shakespeare , to read the poetry of Burns , and to discuss Deism . It was about this time , too , that he read Gibbon , and ...
... mind so thoroughly absorbed . " Under the influence of a whimsical idler , one Jack Kelso , he began to study Shakespeare , to read the poetry of Burns , and to discuss Deism . It was about this time , too , that he read Gibbon , and ...
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