Lincoln's Birthday: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 2310U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - 22 páginas |
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Página 9 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. 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.
Página 6 - I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Página 8 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Página 9 - It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond " readin', writin', and cipherin'
Página 9 - I was elected a captain of volunteers, a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Página 7 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Página 5 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Página 9 - The next and three succeeding biennial elections I was elected to the legislature. I was not a candidate afterwards.
Página 10 - In sorrow by thy bier we stand, Amid the awe that hushes all, And speak the anguish of a land That shook with horror at thy fall. Thy task is done; the bond are free: We bear thee to an honored grave, 10 Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave. Pure was thy life; its bloody close Hath placed thee with the sons of light, Among the noble host of those Who perished in the cause of Right.
Página 9 - I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois.
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| Título | Lincoln's Birthday: Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 2310 |
| Autor | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia |
| Editora | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
| Original de | a Biblioteca do Congresso |
| Digitalizado | 27 Nov 2006 |
| Número de páginas | 22 páginas |
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