Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Τόμος 1Harcourt, Brace, 1926 - 962 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 7
... whisky but not often . The sober Bap- tists saw more of him than those who were steady at licking up liquor . He was a wild buck at fighting , when men didn't let him alone . A man talked about a woman once in a way Tom Lincoln didn't ...
... whisky but not often . The sober Bap- tists saw more of him than those who were steady at licking up liquor . He was a wild buck at fighting , when men didn't let him alone . A man talked about a woman once in a way Tom Lincoln didn't ...
Σελίδα 14
... whisky , syrup in big gourds , peach - and - honey ; a sheep that two families bar- becued whole over coals of wood burned in a pit , and covered with green boughs to keep the juices in ; and a race for the whisky bottle . " The new ...
... whisky , syrup in big gourds , peach - and - honey ; a sheep that two families bar- becued whole over coals of wood burned in a pit , and covered with green boughs to keep the juices in ; and a race for the whisky bottle . " The new ...
Σελίδα 30
... whisky slid out of the boat . Most of the whisky and some of the other goods he managed to fish up from the river bottom . Then he crossed the Ohio River , landed on the Indiana side at Thompson's Ferry and left his whisky and household ...
... whisky slid out of the boat . Most of the whisky and some of the other goods he managed to fish up from the river bottom . Then he crossed the Ohio River , landed on the Indiana side at Thompson's Ferry and left his whisky and household ...
Σελίδα 31
... whisky and the household goods , and drove sixteen miles to their " claim . " The trail was so narrow that a few times Tom Lincoln got off the wagon with an ax and cut brush and trees so the wagon could pass through . It was a hired ...
... whisky and the household goods , and drove sixteen miles to their " claim . " The trail was so narrow that a few times Tom Lincoln got off the wagon with an ax and cut brush and trees so the wagon could pass through . It was a hired ...
Σελίδα 36
... ships sailing to Africa with whisky , calico , and silk , and coming back loaded with negroes . And as the wagons , by thousands a year , were slipping through ON LITTLE PIGEON CREEK 31 the passes of the Allegheny 36 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... ships sailing to Africa with whisky , calico , and silk , and coming back loaded with negroes . And as the wagons , by thousands a year , were slipping through ON LITTLE PIGEON CREEK 31 the passes of the Allegheny 36 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Σελίδα 212 - At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Σελίδα 212 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States. They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power...
Σελίδα 372 - The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
Σελίδα 98 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Σελίδα 309 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Σελίδα 308 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. "The...
Σελίδα 98 - I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
Σελίδα 371 - I will stake my life that if you had been in my place you would have voted just as I did. Would you have voted what you felt and knew to be a lie? I know you would not.
Σελίδα 149 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Σελίδα 89 - Manslaughter is therefore thus defined, the unlawful killing of another, without malice either express or implied : which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat ; or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act.