Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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... and do sums in arithmetic , on the wooden shovel by the fireside , shaving off the used surface and beginning again . At nineteen it is re- corded that he " had read every book he could find , and could spell down the xviii.
... and do sums in arithmetic , on the wooden shovel by the fireside , shaving off the used surface and beginning again . At nineteen it is re- corded that he " had read every book he could find , and could spell down the xviii.
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Passages from His Speeches and Letters Abraham Lincoln. book he could find , and could spell down the whole country . " He read early the Bible , Æsop's " Fables , " " Robinson Crusoe , " " Pilgrim's Progress , " a history of the United ...
Passages from His Speeches and Letters Abraham Lincoln. book he could find , and could spell down the whole country . " He read early the Bible , Æsop's " Fables , " " Robinson Crusoe , " " Pilgrim's Progress , " a history of the United ...
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... find how seldom he went beyond bounds , how fair and just he was , how responsible and conscientious his utterances long before these utterances be- came of national importance . Yet it was largely because of this very quality that they ...
... find how seldom he went beyond bounds , how fair and just he was , how responsible and conscientious his utterances long before these utterances be- came of national importance . Yet it was largely because of this very quality that they ...
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... find that honest purpose , that " sweet reasonableness " and persuasive- ness of speech , which is charac- teristic of his later and more cele- brated utterances . In his gath- ered writings and addresses we find , indeed , touches of ...
... find that honest purpose , that " sweet reasonableness " and persuasive- ness of speech , which is charac- teristic of his later and more cele- brated utterances . In his gath- ered writings and addresses we find , indeed , touches of ...
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... find in his Peoria speech of 1854 a statement of his long con- tention against the extension of slavery , and a proof of his ability to cope intellectually with the ablest debaters of the West . His Peoria speech was in answer to Judge ...
... find in his Peoria speech of 1854 a statement of his long con- tention against the extension of slavery , and a proof of his ability to cope intellectually with the ablest debaters of the West . His Peoria speech was in answer to Judge ...
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