 | 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... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...in the fields and doing the physical labor he did not enjoy. He told a New Jersey audience in 1861: "You all know, for you have all been boys, how these early impressions last longer than others." "I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - Religion - 2007 - 340 pages
...even spoke of the book at a stop on his way to Washington, DC, for his first inaugural, saying that "I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was,...there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for."25 The heroic if hagiographic exploits Lincoln read about left an indelible... | |
 | Edward SteersJr. - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 283 pages
..."fixed themselves upon my memory more than any single revolutionary event," he told the legislators, "and you all know, for you have all been boys, how...these early impressions last longer than any others." Indeed, to Lincoln, such inflated stories had years earlier convinced him — and continued to convince... | |
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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... 
