The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: The life of Lincoln by N. BrooksLamb Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... coln , the great - great - grandfather of the President . The later Lincolns who moved westward in 1782 , at the period of which we have just spoken , were Abraham Lincoln and Mordecai , Josiah , and Thomas , his sons . They went from ...
... coln , the great - great - grandfather of the President . The later Lincolns who moved westward in 1782 , at the period of which we have just spoken , were Abraham Lincoln and Mordecai , Josiah , and Thomas , his sons . They went from ...
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... coln , John Johnston , and Dennis Hanks , were sent to the loft over the cabin to sleep . They climbed up a rude ladder built against the inner side of the log house ; and their bed , a mere sack of dry corn- husks , was so narrow that ...
... coln , John Johnston , and Dennis Hanks , were sent to the loft over the cabin to sleep . They climbed up a rude ladder built against the inner side of the log house ; and their bed , a mere sack of dry corn- husks , was so narrow that ...
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... coln studied almost incessantly . One of the com- panions of his boyhood , Dennis Hanks , said of him : " He was always reading , writing , ciphering , and writing poetry . " In a wonderfully strange school God was training the ...
... coln studied almost incessantly . One of the com- panions of his boyhood , Dennis Hanks , said of him : " He was always reading , writing , ciphering , and writing poetry . " In a wonderfully strange school God was training the ...
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... coln's second visit to the land of slavery . He saw more of the peculiar institution than before . He saw men and women whipped , bought , and sold , families separated , children torn from their parents and wives from their husbands ...
... coln's second visit to the land of slavery . He saw more of the peculiar institution than before . He saw men and women whipped , bought , and sold , families separated , children torn from their parents and wives from their husbands ...
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... coln was stuck on the dam before it ; he spent only a short time there , giving it an immortality of name that few villages ever earn ; it faded away into nothingness and its site was forgotten , after he went away . In managing the ...
... coln was stuck on the dam before it ; he spent only a short time there , giving it an immortality of name that few villages ever earn ; it faded away into nothingness and its site was forgotten , after he went away . In managing the ...
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