| Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...Indiana life, Lincoln said (in 1859): "There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age I did not know much....and cipher to the rule of three; but that was all." He did not say there was nothing to excite ambition except the encouragement of his mother, his stepmother,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...neighborhood, 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 Elinois, and passed the first year in Illinois — Macon county.... | |
| Charles E. Schutz - Humor - 1977 - 364 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 necessity.3 Lincoln finished this rare advertisement for a blossoming presidential candidate in two... | |
| Herbert Mitgang - Drama - 1982 - 68 pages
...interested in grammar and the English language - the only language, unfortunately, that I ever learned. I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three, but that was about all. Any advance I now have on this store of learning, I picked up under the pressure of necessity.... | |
| Frank Freidel - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 98 pages
...was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. ... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all." Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm,... | |
| William J. Reese - Educational change - 1998 - 254 pages
...for the schools of his Hoosier youth: "There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three; but that was all." Lincoln passed a harsh judgment on the common schools of Indiana, one in which many concurred.5 Lincoln's... | |
| Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...neighborhood, 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....and cipher to the Rule of Three; but that was all." The earliest days of my being able to read, I got hold of a small book, Weems' "Life of Washington."... | |
| Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...year It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher. . . but that was all. Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to educate himself. Starting when he was twelve,... | |
| History - 2003 - 260 pages
...recalled. Though he had spent little time in school, "Still somehow," he remembered, at twenty-one, "I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I was never in a college or academy as a student. What I have in the way of education I have picked up,... | |
| Harry Paul Jeffers - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 344 pages
...months before becoming the presidential candidate of a fledgling Republican Party, said that when he came of age, "I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher . . . but that was all." Born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, he grew up in Indiana.... | |
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