 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 páginas
...essays and arithmetical exercises, which he would shave off and begin again. It is touching turned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." * The picture... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 páginas
...cannot describe some of Abe's habits better than John has described them for us: " When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 páginas
...of age. John Hanks, who went to live with the Lincolns, as we have said, when Abraham was fourteen, says, — " When Abe and I returned to the house from...work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cross his legs as high as his head, and read. He... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - 1882 - 162 páginas
...cannot describe some of Abe's habits better than John has described them for us : 'When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down in a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He and... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 páginas
...reminds us of Chaucer's description of his love of reading in The House of Fame : — ' When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. . .... | |
 | Henry Curwen - 1884 - 338 páginas
...which he put down all things, and thus preserved them." Again, John Hanks says : — " When Lincoln, Abe and I, returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He and... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 páginas
...ungrudgingly, though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, his own began. John Hanks says : " When Abe and I returned to the house from...work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." The picture... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 páginas
...ungrudgingly, though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, his own began. John Hanks says: " When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupw H . board, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 páginas
...and "he would sit in the twilight and read a dictionary as long as he could see." John Hanks said: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." At twenty-four,... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1901 - 374 páginas
...paper. Then he would copy it, look at it, commit it to memory and repeat it." His step-brother said : " When Abe and I returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." When night... | |
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Abe — and I returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read. 
