 | Black Hawk War, 1832 - 1899 - 64 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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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....necessity. "I was raised to farm- work, which I continued until I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois and passed the first year in Macon County.... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 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,...from time to time under the pressure of necessity. I wag raised to farm work, at which I continued till I was twentytwo." 125 He knew nothing of grammar,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 470 pages
...rudiments of instruction. "When I came of age," wrote the future President, "I didn't know much; still I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three,...that was all. I have not been to school since. The litilc advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to time under the... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 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....pressure of necessity. "I was raised to farm work, at which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, and passed the first... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...rudiments of instruction. "When I came of age," wrote the future President, "I didn't know much; still I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three,...from time to time under the pressure of necessity." At the age of 19, Lincoln made a journey as a hired hand on a flat boat to New Orleans, and two years... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 460 pages
...rudiments of instruction. "When I came of age," wrote the future President, "I didn't know much ; still I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three,...from time to time under the pressure of necessity." At the age of 19, Lincoln made a journey as a hired hand on a flat boat to New Orleans, and two years... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 490 pages
...much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three. But that was all. . . . The little advance I now have upon this store of education...pressure of necessity. "I was raised to farm work . . . till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 504 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 under... | |
 | 1922 - 572 pages
...and even when ploughing in the fields, he found time to read while the horses were allowed to rest. "Of course when I came of age I did not know much," he wrote years afterward, "still somehow I could read, write and cipher the rule of three, but that... | |
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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. 
