 ... 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...  The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 69by Ida Minerva Tarbell, John McCan Davis - 1896 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 518 pages
...Education was long a crude affair, and a boy like Abraham Lincoln found " son» schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin' ' to the rule oí three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in thf neighborhood, he... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...Indiana wilderness. "There were some schools so called," wrote Mr. Lincoln many years later, " but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education." 5 Nothing, indeed, unless we accept... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1906 - 340 pages
...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...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard." The school-house was a low cabin of round logs, with split logs or "puncheons" for a floor, split logs... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 514 pages
...Education was long a crude affair, and a boy like Abraham Lincoln found " some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to stimulate ambition for education." Th«> bow WATER, MISSISSIPPL 2S8... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1906 - 386 pages
...region, with many bears and other animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow I could read, write, and cipher to... | |
 | Alonzo Rothschild - 1906 - 554 pages
...Indiana wilderness. "There were some schools so called," wrote Mr. Lincoln many years later, " but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education." 5 Nothing, indeed, unless we accept... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1906 - 536 pages
...There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 144 'readin', writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three.'...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. ... Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...would Lose your Latin there. Lincoln said of the rude frontier country where he was brought up: "If a 3 straggler, supposed to understand Latin, happened...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard." He knew no Latin except that found in his old copy of " Blackstone," and English law Latin — Obscuris... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...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 tipherin'" to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in... | |
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