A Life of Lincoln for BoysT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1907 - 328 pages |
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Page 37
... speaking . The good man came to the sorrowing family . The whole neighborhood was told ; news went from schoolhouse to schoolhouse and every family within twenty miles learned of his com- ing . There were two hundred persons gath- ered ...
... speaking . The good man came to the sorrowing family . The whole neighborhood was told ; news went from schoolhouse to schoolhouse and every family within twenty miles learned of his com- ing . There were two hundred persons gath- ered ...
Page 63
... speak and write against it . Abraham in going from house to house and farm to farm among these people was learning much of their character which , later , was of great use to him . And he , no doubt , remem- bered many of their old ...
... speak and write against it . Abraham in going from house to house and farm to farm among these people was learning much of their character which , later , was of great use to him . And he , no doubt , remem- bered many of their old ...
Page 67
... speaking , came to Decatur where he made a speech . John Hanks was contemptuous . He declared that Abe Lincoln could beat that all hollow . " Abe , try him on , " he pursued . A box was turned over for the young man to stand upon ; and ...
... speaking , came to Decatur where he made a speech . John Hanks was contemptuous . He declared that Abe Lincoln could beat that all hollow . " Abe , try him on , " he pursued . A box was turned over for the young man to stand upon ; and ...
Page 72
... speaking of the " tedious trip " on the steamer from Louisville to St. Louis : " You may re- member , I well do , that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled together with irons ...
... speaking of the " tedious trip " on the steamer from Louisville to St. Louis : " You may re- member , I well do , that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were on board ten or a dozen slaves shackled together with irons ...
Page 80
... speak in public . Lincoln learned of a text book upon this subject owned by a man living seven or eight miles away . His long limbs soon measured this dis- tance and he bought the book . The work of Mr. Offutt's store did not take up ...
... speak in public . Lincoln learned of a text book upon this subject owned by a man living seven or eight miles away . His long limbs soon measured this dis- tance and he bought the book . The work of Mr. Offutt's store did not take up ...
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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.