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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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HOUSE WHERE PRESIDENT LINCOLN WAS BORN. (FROM ASKETCH FROM MEMORY, IN POSSESSION OF R. T. DURRETT, ESQ.) LINCOLN AS PIONEER. nothing to do with that love of science for itsown sake which has been so often seen inlowly savants, who have sacrificed their livesto the pure desire of knowing the works ofGod. All the little learning he ever acquiredhe seized as a tool to better his condition.He learned his letters that he might readbooks and see how men in the great worldoutside of his woods had borne themselves in logs, as distinguished from the more aristo-cratic split logs, with earthen floors, andsmall holes for windows, sometimes illumi-nated by as much light as could penetratethrough panes of paper greased with lard.The teachers were usually in keeping withtheir primitive surroundings. The professionoffered no rewards sufficient to attract men ofeducation or capacity. After a few months of
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VIEW OF ROCK SPRING ON THE THOMAS LINCOLN FARM NEAR THE HOUSE WHERE THE PRESIDENT WAS BORN. the fight for which he longed. He learned towrite, first, that he might have an accomplish-ment his playmates had not; then that hemight help his elders by writing their letters,and enjoy the feeling of usefulness which thisgave him; and finally that he might copywhat struck him in his reading and thus makeit his own for future use. He learned to ciphercertainly from no love of mathematics, butbecause it might come in play in some morecongenial business than the farm-work whichbounded the horizon of his contemporaries.Had it not been for that interior spur whichkept his clear spirit at its task, his schoolscould have done little for him; for, countinghis attendance under Riney and Hazel inKentucky, and under Dorsey, Crawford, andSwaney in Indiana, it amounted to less thana year in all. The schools were much alike.They were held in deserted cabins of round desultory instruction young Abraham kne

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