It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin' Great Speeches and how to Make Them - Page 7by Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 391 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 pages
...were few enough. Mr. Lincoln has left us a vivid picture of the situation. " It was," he once wrote, " a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond reading, writing, and ciphering to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1876 - 820 pages
...of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond "readin', writin' and cipherin'... | |
| Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 pages
...grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now ' Spencer tro., Ind., in my eighth year. We reached our new [ home about the time the State came into tho Union. It i war* a wild region, with тяну bears and other wild ani- . mal« still in tho woods.... | |
| 1911 - 460 pages
...of his father, was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in...required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and figurin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in... | |
| David W. Lusk - 1884 - 600 pages
...literally without any education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my 8th year. We reached our new home about the time the State...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, socalled, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin,' and cipherin'... | |
| 1887 - 716 pages
...of this century. Lincoln himself, writing of his experience as a boy in Perry County, Indiana, said, "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin',... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 pages
...somewhat given to hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana: "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin',... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 pages
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
| William Henry Venable - 1891 - 552 pages
...somewhat given to hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana: "It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
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