 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 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....now have upon this store of education I have picked -jp from time to time under the pressure of necessity. I was raised to farm work, which I continued... | |
 | Thomas Condit Miller, West Virginia. State Department of Education - Lincoln Day - 1909 - 68 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....under the pressure of 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... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 414 pages
...his stock of 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... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 896 pages
...without education. lie removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much....from time to time under the pressure of necessity. * * * If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am six feet four inches,... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1910 - 96 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....picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessl^ I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1910 - 540 pages
...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond readin', writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three. Of course when I came of age I did not know much. I have not been to school since. I was raised to farm-work, which I continued until I was twenty-two.... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1911 - 408 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 w,as twentytwo. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County.... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 954 pages
...without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much....from time to time under the pressure of necessity. * * * If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am six feet four inches,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age 10 I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read,...from time to time under the pressure of necessity. 15 I was raised to farm work, which I continued till I was twenty-two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois,... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - Lincoln Statue (Newark, N. J.) - 1912 - 104 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... | |
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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. 
