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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... once bought a pair of silk suspenders for a dollar and a half at a time when most men were using homemade hickory - bark galluses . As Tom Lincoln came to his full growth he was about five feet , nine inches tall , weighing about 185 ...
... once bought a pair of silk suspenders for a dollar and a half at a time when most men were using homemade hickory - bark galluses . As Tom Lincoln came to his full growth he was about five feet , nine inches tall , weighing about 185 ...
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... once in a way Tom Lincoln didn't like . And in the fight that came , Tom bit a piece of the man's nose off . His neighbors knew him as a good man to let alone . And his neighbors knew him for a good workman , a handy man with the ax ...
... once in a way Tom Lincoln didn't like . And in the fight that came , Tom bit a piece of the man's nose off . His neighbors knew him as a good man to let alone . And his neighbors knew him for a good workman , a handy man with the ax ...
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... once in the night and the feet of the father moving on the dirt floor to help the mother and the little one . In the morning he took a long look at the baby and said to himself , " Its skin looks just like red cherry pulp squeezed dry ...
... once in the night and the feet of the father moving on the dirt floor to help the mother and the little one . In the morning he took a long look at the baby and said to himself , " Its skin looks just like red cherry pulp squeezed dry ...
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... once , sitting with her child and her thoughts , looking at running water and green moss . The secrets of the mingled drone and hush of the place gave her reminders of Bible language , " Be ye comforted , " or " Peace , be still ...
... once , sitting with her child and her thoughts , looking at running water and green moss . The secrets of the mingled drone and hush of the place gave her reminders of Bible language , " Be ye comforted , " or " Peace , be still ...
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... once . It was a " blab school " ; so they called it . The Louisville and Nashville pike running past the Lincoln cabin had many different travelers . Covered wagons came with settlers moving south and west , or north to Ohio and Indiana ...
... once . It was a " blab school " ; so they called it . The Louisville and Nashville pike running past the Lincoln cabin had many different travelers . Covered wagons came with settlers moving south and west , or north to Ohio and Indiana ...
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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.