A Life of Lincoln for BoysT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 328 pages |
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... Virginia was a very large country indeed ; it included not only Virginia as it now is on the map , but the whole of West Virginia , Ohio , Kentucky and " every 、 thing westward to the Mississippi , and as much further as the colony had ...
... Virginia was a very large country indeed ; it included not only Virginia as it now is on the map , but the whole of West Virginia , Ohio , Kentucky and " every 、 thing westward to the Mississippi , and as much further as the colony had ...
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... Virginia had been taken up , they began to look over the mountains to see what was beyond . It was not all desire for tobacco fields , how- ever , that influenced them . The Anglo - Saxon people love land , they want space enough to ...
... Virginia had been taken up , they began to look over the mountains to see what was beyond . It was not all desire for tobacco fields , how- ever , that influenced them . The Anglo - Saxon people love land , they want space enough to ...
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... Virginia found that they would have to farm on the slopes of the Alleghanies or go beyond these for new lands . As early as 1750 Indian traders had found passes through these mountains ; and it was one of these Indian traders who guided ...
... Virginia found that they would have to farm on the slopes of the Alleghanies or go beyond these for new lands . As early as 1750 Indian traders had found passes through these mountains ; and it was one of these Indian traders who guided ...
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... Virginia . It was this son , Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of our presi- dent , who went to Kentucky , partly because he wanted more land and partly because he was so interested in what he had heard from Boone about that country ...
... Virginia . It was this son , Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of our presi- dent , who went to Kentucky , partly because he wanted more land and partly because he was so interested in what he had heard from Boone about that country ...
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... Virginia legislature - for then Kentucky was a part of Virginia , as we remember - endowed a college in that country , the origin of the Uni- versity of Lexington . In 1781 more people came ; and after the war of the Revolution a good ...
... Virginia legislature - for then Kentucky was a part of Virginia , as we remember - endowed a college in that country , the origin of the Uni- versity of Lexington . In 1781 more people came ; and after the war of the Revolution a good ...
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Page 282 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 164 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 31 - I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine, on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides!
Page 110 - 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.
Page 30 - Of the wild-flower's time and place, Flight of fowl and habitude Of the tenants of the wood ; How the tortoise bears his shell, How the woodchuck digs his cell, And the ground mole sinks his well ; How the robin feeds her young, How the oriole's nest is hung...
Page 110 - 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 ought not to be exercised, unless at the request of the people of the District. "The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is their reason for entering...
Page 313 - The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great North-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand.
Page 164 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Page 268 - At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks, thanks to all.
Page 285 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.