 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 220 pages
...hardships endured at that time; all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single revolutionary event. I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. 12 "Washington and his little forlorn hope, pressed on through the darksome... | |
 | Scott E. Casper - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 462 pages
...Weems's descriptions of the battles in New Jersey had fixed themselves in young Lincoln's mind, and "I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for." 10 The familiarity of Weems's work •was best illustrated in the first bestselling... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single Revolutionary event; and you all know, for you have all been boys,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Barbara Coloroso - Family & Relationships - 2010 - 272 pages
...Trenton, I told the New Jersey senate about my reading of Weeun and said that I had thought then. boy though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for, I was exceedingly anxious, I said. to prutect that "thing" which they struggled... | |
 | Daniel J. Weeks - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 370 pages
...hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single revolutionary event; and you all know, for you have all been boys,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they snuggled for; that something... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...liberties of the countrv and the great J O hardships of that time fixed themselves on ... my memory. ip: Any person of La Raza registered in La Raza Unida...Party and/or who works actively to support the program those o men struggled for. "I am exceedingly anxious that the thing which they struggled for, that... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single revolutionary event; and you all know, for you have all been boys,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - History - 2005 - 246 pages
...hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory more than any single revolutionary event; and you all know, for you have all been boys,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing which they struggled for; that something... | |
 | Richard Lawrence Miller - Illinois - 2006 - 470 pages
...all the accounts there given of the battlefields and struggles for the liberties of the country. ... I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for."178 Lincoln's second Indiana schoolteacher was James Swaney. Fellow student... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 264 pages
...fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. * * * 1 recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for." Even at this age, he was not only an interested reader of the story, but... | |
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The crossing of the river; the contest with the Hessians; the great hardships endured at that time, all fixed themselves on my memory, more than any single revolutionary event ; and you all know, for you have all been boys, how these early impressions... 
