The Life of Abraham LincolnCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 444 páginas She is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, author of such blockbuster exposes as 1904's The History of the Standard Oil Company, which actually contributed to the corporation's breakup in 1911. But in this 1900 work, as charming as it is important, American author IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) shows a softer side as she traces, with a laudatory and admiring spirit, the development of the character and morals of Abraham Lincoln. Begun as a project by McClure's Magazine to collect and preserve the reminiscences of friends and acquaintances of Abraham Lincoln while they were still alive, the project grew into a series of articles for the periodical, and then finally this two-volume spiritual biography of the great man, which draws on firsthand memories and other material, including original sources such speeches, letters, and telegrams. Volume I covers Lincoln's life from before he was even born, with the origins of the Lincoln family back to the early 17th century, through his education, his service in the Black Hawk War, his early dabblings in politics, his experiences and attitudes as a lawyer, and the presidential campaign of 1860. |
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... told by one of the pioneers of Illinois of go- ing many miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn , that when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn and he had none to grind . This waiting with other men and boys ...
... told by one of the pioneers of Illinois of go- ing many miles with a grist , and waiting so long for his turn , that when it came , he and his horse had eaten all the corn and he had none to grind . This waiting with other men and boys ...
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... told their fortunes . He helped pare apples , shell corn and crack nuts . He took the girls to meeting and to spelling - school , though he was not often al- lowed to take part in the spelling - match , for the one who " chose first ...
... told their fortunes . He helped pare apples , shell corn and crack nuts . He took the girls to meeting and to spelling - school , though he was not often al- lowed to take part in the spelling - match , for the one who " chose first ...
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... told a friend that he " read through every book he had ever heard of in that country , for a circuit of fifty miles . " From everything he read he made long extracts , with his turkey- buzzard pen and brier - root ink . When he had no ...
... told a friend that he " read through every book he had ever heard of in that country , for a circuit of fifty miles . " From everything he read he made long extracts , with his turkey- buzzard pen and brier - root ink . When he had no ...
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... told him they were right . Everything he read confirmed their teachings , and he cultivated , in every way open to him , his passion to know and to be something . His zeal in study , his ambition to excel made their impression on his ...
... told him they were right . Everything he read confirmed their teachings , and he cultivated , in every way open to him , his passion to know and to be something . His zeal in study , his ambition to excel made their impression on his ...
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... days of his boyhood , and always with apparent pleasure . " Mr. Lincoln told this story ( of his youth ) , " says Leonard Swett , " as the story of a happy child- hood . There was nothing sad or pinched , and 46 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
... days of his boyhood , and always with apparent pleasure . " Mr. Lincoln told this story ( of his youth ) , " says Leonard Swett , " as the story of a happy child- hood . There was nothing sad or pinched , and 46 LIFE OF LINCOLN.
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Lincoln runs for State assembly and is defeatedStore | 89 |
Electioneering in Illinois in 1834Lincoln reads law | 108 |
Lincoln becomes a candidate for Congress and is | 192 |
Lincoln in Washington in 1847He opposes the Mexi | 207 |
Lincoln at NiagaraSecures a patent for an inven | 225 |
Lincoln on the circuitHis humor and persuasiveness | 241 |
Lincolns important law casesDefence of a slave girl | 257 |
Lincoln reenters politics | 279 |
The LincolnDouglas debates | 301 |
Lincolns nomination in 1860 | 334 |
Lincoln is reelected to the Illinois assemblyHis first | 124 |
Lincoln begins to study lawMary OwensA news | 147 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 170 |
Mr Lincoln as Presidentelect | 387 |
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