 Abe read every book he could lay his hands on ;-and when he came across a passage that struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper, and keep it there until he did get paper. Then he would re-write it, look at it, and repeat it. He...  St. Nicholas - Página 26editado por - 1906Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 294 páginas
...books of the right kind. His stepmother said of him: "He read everything he could lay his hands on; and when he came across a passage that struck him, he...it down on boards, if he had no paper, and keep it before him until he could get paper. Then he would copy it, look at it, commit it to memory, and repeat... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 542 páginas
...books of the right kind. His stepmother said of him: "He read everything he could lay his hands on, and when he came across a passage that struck him, he...it down on boards, if he had no paper, and keep it before him until he could get paper. Then he would copy it, look at it, commit it to memory, and repeat... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 248 páginas
...without help. His plan was slow but effective. "He read every book he could lay his hands on; and, when he came across a passage that struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper. Then he would rewrite it, look at it, repeat it. He had a copy" Tarbell, 1, 43. * Oldroyd, 533. book,... | |
 | 1900 - 478 páginas
...center. His step mother said of him. He r •; everything he could lay his hands on, and when he came to a passage that struck him, he would write it down on boards, and keep It by him until he could get paper. Then he would copy It, look at It, commit It to memory,... | |
 | Emma Lilian Dana - 1923 - 232 páginas
...had "read through every book he had heard of within a circuit of fifty miles" — and when he came to a passage that struck him, he would write it down...did get paper. Then he would rewrite it, look at it, and repeat it." He had a kind of scrap book in which he put everything that interested him. After his... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 718 páginas
...— two in Kentucky and three in Indiana — extended over a period of nine years, we must remember that it made up in all less than one twelvemonth;...there until he did get paper. Then he would rewrite the passage, look at it, repeat it. He had a copy-book, a kind of scrap-book, in which he put down... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 666 páginas
...remembered Lincoln read so thoroughly that he could repeat, word for word, parts that best pleased him. 'When he came across a passage that struck him he...down on boards if he had no paper and keep it there till he did get paper, then he would rewrite it, look at it, repeat it. He had a copy-book, a kind... | |
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