 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 432 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... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 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, I could read, write, *.xi^cd•w -^^v j ' f &aa •-, v *&*•>*•' a . a M^^MfMtVl f\ » A^tx^u^x G^ryA. ** 4JeJC - '... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 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, I could read, write, CfaGi*~ <4r* at^K, /X^C &S — J f^^r. *™*7 -T^^~_ i$u~~~, & - -tf«.«. /«j , -A**^G& tX—. 4/u.... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1895 - 348 pages
...he was looked upon as a wizzard — 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 twenty two — At twenty one I came to Illinois, and passed the first year in Macon county — Then... | |
 | Frances A. Humphrey, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Susan Fenimore Cooper, I. L. Beman - 1895 - 392 pages
...stock in education about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend twenty-seven years, later : " I did not know much ; still, somehow, I could read,...and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all." That, however, was up to the average education of the community ; and having been clerk in a country... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - United States - 1896 - 518 pages
...As a boy, he was so situated that he received almost no school instruction, and he said of himself, "The little advance I now have upon this store of...from time to time under the pressure of necessity." In 1834 lie was elected to the Illinois Legislature, where he remained eight years. While in the legislature,... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1896 - 536 pages
...of Indiana, where there were few opportunities to gain an education, and when he was twenty-one he "could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three; but that was all." Still the circumstances of his early life served to strengthen the essential elements of true greatness,... | |
 | Prescott Holmes - Presidents - 1898 - 298 pages
...were both born in Virginia. My mother died in my tenth year. When I came of age I did not know much. I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. The little advance I have now I picked up under the pressure of necessity. At 21, I came to Illinois.... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Presidents - 1899 - 62 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... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 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... | |
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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. 
