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Title: Abraham Lincoln, the pioneer boy and how he became president : the story of his life
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ve topublic shows and entertainments, to festivity, to amuse-ments, nay, even to mental and bodily rest, I give tostudy and philosophy. Even when he was engaged inthe fields surveying, his thoughts were upon his books,so that much which he learned at night was fastened inhis mind by day. He might have adopted the languageof Cicero concerning himself: Even my leisure hourshave their occupation. Sometimes he was engaged days and weeks togetherin surveying, having only his nights in which to study;and then, again, he had both day and night to give tohis books for a time. Nor did his interest abate in theleast; it rather increased than otherwise. The longerhe studied, the more deeply absorbed he became in hisbooks. His robust physical constitution enabled himto endure hard toil both of body and mind, otherwisehe would have broken down. He served his constituents so faithfully in the Legis-lature that he was renominated for the position inIiJ36. He had grown so rapidly in mental power that
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fi/:»i?ii;;i»iii),r LAURELS WON. 225 in this campaign his speeches were of high order.R. L. Wilson, who was a Representative elect withLincoln, says:— The Saturday evening preceding the election thecandidates were addressing the people in the CourtFiouse at Springfield. Dr. Early, one of the candi-dates on the Democratic side, made some charge thatN. W. Edwards, one of the candidates on the Whigside, deemed untrue. Edwards climbed on a table, soas to be seen by Early and by every one in the house,and at the top of his voice told Early that the chargevvas false. The excitement that followed was intense,—so much so that fighting men thought a duel mustsettle the difficulty. Mr. Lincoln, by the programme,followed Early. He took up the subject in dispute,and handled it fairly, and with such ability that everyone was astonished and pleased. So that difficultyended there. Then, for the first time, developed bythe excitement of the occasion, he spoke in that tenorintonation of voice, t

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