| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1906 - 598 páginas
...were few enough. Mr. Lincoln has left us a vivid picture of the situation. " It was," he once wrote, " a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond reading, writing, and ciphering to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1876 - 820 páginas
...grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the...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'... | |
| Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 páginas
...and he grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now ' Spencer tro., Ind., in my eighth year. We reached our new [ home about the time the State came into tho Union. It i war* a wild region, with тяну bears and other wild ani- . mal« still in tho woods.... | |
| 1911 - 458 páginas
...grew up literally without education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the...required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and figurin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in... | |
| David W. Lusk - 1884 - 600 páginas
...literally without any education. He removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, in my 8th year. We reached our new home about the time the State...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, socalled, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin,' and cipherin'... | |
| 1887 - 716 páginas
...of this century. Lincoln himself, writing of his experience as a boy in Perry County, Indiana, said, "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin',... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 páginas
...somewhat given to hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana: "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin',... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 páginas
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 páginas
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
| William Henry Venable - 1891 - 552 páginas
...somewhat given to hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana: "It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
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