The Pioneer Boy: And how He Became President, The Story of the Life of Abraham LincolnHodder and Stoughton, 1882 - 395 páginas |
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... and his father tried to carry him away in the retreat . He plunged into the river with him on his back , but the boy died before he reached the other side . By the 4 time Boone got over the river , he looked BIRTHPLACE . 3.
... and his father tried to carry him away in the retreat . He plunged into the river with him on his back , but the boy died before he reached the other side . By the 4 time Boone got over the river , he looked BIRTHPLACE . 3.
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... carried them off . They belonged to the fort at Boones- boro , and one of them was Boone's daughter . They were ... carry them , leaving the girls and their weapons behind . " Abraham's young life was regaled with many such " yarns ...
... carried them off . They belonged to the fort at Boones- boro , and one of them was Boone's daughter . They were ... carry them , leaving the girls and their weapons behind . " Abraham's young life was regaled with many such " yarns ...
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... carrying their dinner of corn - bread , without vary- ing it a single day during the eight or ten weeks of their attendance . Here Abraham really began his career . Here he acquired the art of penmanship , -very imperfectly , of course ...
... carrying their dinner of corn - bread , without vary- ing it a single day during the eight or ten weeks of their attendance . Here Abraham really began his career . Here he acquired the art of penmanship , -very imperfectly , of course ...
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... carry on such a trip , though I expect to move on a flat - boat . " " Just the easiest thing in the world to carry this ; you can carry it as well as not on a boat . You won't have half a load of other stuff . And it will bring you ...
... carry on such a trip , though I expect to move on a flat - boat . " " Just the easiest thing in the world to carry this ; you can carry it as well as not on a boat . You won't have half a load of other stuff . And it will bring you ...
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... carry his goods to his place of destination , and take his boat for pay . Lincoln would have no further use for his boat , so that it was a good bargain for him , and equally good for Posey , who I wanted a boat . Accordingly , the team ...
... carry his goods to his place of destination , and take his boat for pay . Lincoln would have no further use for his boat , so that it was a good bargain for him , and equally good for Posey , who I wanted a boat . Accordingly , the team ...
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Página 281 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 357 - And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 356 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Página 356 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 341 - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the Nation's condition is not what either party or any man devised or expected. God alone can claim it.
Página 356 - State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.
Página 353 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever, free...
Página 364 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 314 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 352 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.