Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volum 1Harcourt, Brace, 1926 - 46 sider "For thirty years and more I planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the Knox County neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face."--Preface. |
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Side viii
... early life of Lincoln , theretofore pictured as drab and miserable be- yond the fact . Death and time have obliterated people and houses that Miss R PREFACE ix Tarbell visited nearly thirty years ago with note viii PREFACE.
... early life of Lincoln , theretofore pictured as drab and miserable be- yond the fact . Death and time have obliterated people and houses that Miss R PREFACE ix Tarbell visited nearly thirty years ago with note viii PREFACE.
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... in stacks and bundles of fact and legend , I found invisible companionships that surprised me . Perhaps a few of those presences lurk and murmur in this book . PREFACE NOTE xiii WHEN I TRIED TO MAKE A COMPLETE xii PREFACE.
... in stacks and bundles of fact and legend , I found invisible companionships that surprised me . Perhaps a few of those presences lurk and murmur in this book . PREFACE NOTE xiii WHEN I TRIED TO MAKE A COMPLETE xii PREFACE.
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... fact , he first learned the meanings of names and how to answer , " Yes , it's me , " if his mother called in the dark , " Is that you , Abe ? ” Chapter 7 IN the year 1816 Tom Lincoln was appointed road surveyor . The paper naming him ...
... fact , he first learned the meanings of names and how to answer , " Yes , it's me , " if his mother called in the dark , " Is that you , Abe ? ” Chapter 7 IN the year 1816 Tom Lincoln was appointed road surveyor . The paper naming him ...
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... facts took the light and sprang upstairs . It came to pass she ran to one of the beds and exclaimed , " O Lord , Reuben , you are in bed with the wrong wife . " The young men , both alarmed at this , sprang up out of bed and ran with ...
... facts took the light and sprang upstairs . It came to pass she ran to one of the beds and exclaimed , " O Lord , Reuben , you are in bed with the wrong wife . " The young men , both alarmed at this , sprang up out of bed and ran with ...
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... fact twisted through and around the births and the deaths of the men and the women of the Lin- coln and Hanks clan , talked about sometimes in hushed and sober moments , sometimes perhaps late at night when monoto- nous , multitudinous ...
... fact twisted through and around the births and the deaths of the men and the women of the Lin- coln and Hanks clan , talked about sometimes in hushed and sober moments , sometimes perhaps late at night when monoto- nous , multitudinous ...
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Side 212 - At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Side 212 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States. They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power...
Side 372 - The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
Side 98 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Side 309 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Side 308 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. "The...
Side 98 - I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Side 371 - I will stake my life that if you had been in my place you would have voted just as I did. Would you have voted what you felt and knew to be a lie? I know you would not.
Side 149 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Side 89 - Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful killing of another, without malice either express or implied : which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat ; or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act.