Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

Stokes, Henry Paine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1334248494 ISBN 13: 9781334248498

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born ln 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12th. His Father and Mother were both natives of Virginia. The Home in which he was born was both squalid and wretched - a one-roomed cabin without floor or wmdow. Here he spent the first eight years of his life, amid poverty and privations, hardships and sufferings. The struggle for existence was very strenuous in that wilderness. His mother died when he was 10 years old, and it ismost important to remember, to her ever lasting honour, that she, amid all her struggles in these wild regions, taught her son to read his Bible. We shall see how this stood him in good stead in after life, and laid the foundation of his future greatness. His father married again, and Abraham Lincoln was devoted to her, calling her a saintly mother, an angel of a mother, who first made him feel like a human being. Schools were very rare, and the scholars were taught merely the rudiments of instruction. Abraham Lincoln wrote of this period Of course when I came of age I did not know much, still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education I have picked up from time to 'time under the pressure of necessity. This is how he was educated, but Abraham Lincoln knew how to use the little knowledge he possessed to the best possible advantage.

The list of his books is interesting The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress, [esop's Fables, a History of the United States, a Life of Washington, and Robinson Crusoe. He knew them all by heart. He walked twelve miles onceto borrow a copy of an English Grammar. He was always using his mental powers, reading and writing, while others slept. He thought out subjects for himself, and consequently had made up his mind upon them. Paper being very scarce, he would by the aid of the firelight during the evening, write and cipher upon the back of a wooden shovel, and then shave it off to make room for more. He would take a lump of chalk and make his notes on the broader wall of the cabin. An old farmer recalls him sitting barefoot on a wood pile reading a book This being such an extraordinary proceeding for a farm hand, he asked him what he was reading.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334248494
• ISBN 13: 9781334248498
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 34