A Life of Lincoln for BoysT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 328 pages |
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... seemed to him worthy of struggle and labor . The history of his life gives us a faint idea of what his struggle and labor were . It tells us also how his great desire to help the world was gratified in a wonderful way . In all our land ...
... seemed to him worthy of struggle and labor . The history of his life gives us a faint idea of what his struggle and labor were . It tells us also how his great desire to help the world was gratified in a wonderful way . In all our land ...
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... seemed to them a world of wonders and romance . It had the Ohio river on the north , the Mississippi on the west , the Cumberland Mountains between it and Virginia ; it had rich and fertile lands ready for the pio- neers ; also , many ...
... seemed to them a world of wonders and romance . It had the Ohio river on the north , the Mississippi on the west , the Cumberland Mountains between it and Virginia ; it had rich and fertile lands ready for the pio- neers ; also , many ...
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... seemed to them so comfortable after the wretched place they had been living in that they staid there for a year or two without doors or windows or floor . Thomas raised enough corn to live on ; the forest with game was all around them ...
... seemed to them so comfortable after the wretched place they had been living in that they staid there for a year or two without doors or windows or floor . Thomas raised enough corn to live on ; the forest with game was all around them ...
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... seemed as if he were just made up of determination to keep every scrap of knowledge he had ever gained , and from this to reach up to more . He was like a mountain climber who hews out for him- self with his tools a foothold in the ...
... seemed as if he were just made up of determination to keep every scrap of knowledge he had ever gained , and from this to reach up to more . He was like a mountain climber who hews out for him- self with his tools a foothold in the ...
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... seemed waste of time to Thomas Lincoln , and he soon put his son at steady work , and the boy bade good - by to school . But all the time from a very young boy he knew what it was to work . He was so tall and strong that he did a man's ...
... seemed waste of time to Thomas Lincoln , and he soon put his son at steady work , and the boy bade good - by to school . But all the time from a very young boy he knew what it was to work . He was so tall and strong that he did a man's ...
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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.