 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 208 pages
...eighth year. ... It was a wild region, with many bears and other animals still in the woods. . . . There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three.' If a straggler supposed to understand Latin... | |
 | William C. King - Biography - 1900 - 680 pages
...and grew up literally without any education. He removed to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the...grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualifications were ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin" to the rule... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 312 pages
...of the teachers, it was, perhaps, just as well that it was only " by littles." No qualification was required of a teacher beyond " readin', writin,' and...to the rule of three." If a straggler supposed to know Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a "wizard." But more or less... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 314 pages
...description of the teachers, it was perhaps just as well that it was only "by littles." No qualification was required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin' and...to the rule of three." If a straggler supposed to know Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a "wizard." But more or less... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union (1816). It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew... | |
 | Charles Washington Moores - Presidents - 1900 - 156 pages
...never wholly forgot. Years afterward, in telling about this boyhood home Lincoln described it as " a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods." Speaking of this seven-year-old boy who had just come into Indiana, he said: " He settled in an unbroken... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 300 pages
...of the teachers, it was, perhaps, just as well that it was only " by littles." No qualification was required of a teacher beyond " readin", writin,' and...to the rule of three." If a straggler supposed to know Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a "wizard." But more or less... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 518 pages
...Education was long a crude affair, and a boy like Abraham Lincoln found " son» schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher...beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin' ' to the rule oí three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in thf neighborhood, he... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time that State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with...required of a teacher beyond "readin", writin', and tipherin'" to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 746 pages
...were few enough. Mr. Lincoln has left us a vivid picture of the situation. " It was," he once wrote, " a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond reading, writing, and ciphering to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to underABRAHAM LINCOLN.... | |
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It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin" 
